Welcome to ACS Playground¶ ↑

A place to mess with the uber-completer plugin…

RUN ‘rake app:setup`, it will build stuff and get the playground ready for playtime.

FIRE UP A SERVER, the goodies are linked to from the root page.

IF YOU BUILD SOMETHING WORTH LINKING TO, link to it from the root page of the site and explain it.

Intent¶ ↑

Backend¶ ↑

We would like to provide a tool for turning any model into an autocompletable instance. This would facilitate different search methodologies for different models, searching across tables/models, and even perhaps autocompletion on database backed models. Easily swappable and createable backends to swap in for your search backend, while still running seamlessly with the rest of the plugin architecture.

This adds functionality over the auto_complete plugin (pulled from rails core), as it is not search limited to one parameter of the model, nor is it search limited to returning one model. It can return and display as much return information to the user as you want.

Potential API:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend UberSearch::ModelExtensions

  uber_searchable do |api|
    api.returns = {:name => :name, :join_date => proc {|x| x.created_at.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")} }

    api.backend = :MysqlFullTextSearch
    api.backend.full_text_index = :user_full_text_index
  end     
end

class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend UberSearch::ModelExtensions

  scope :active, { where(:active => true)}
  scope :published, { where(:published => true) }

  uber_searchable do |api|
    api.returns = {:author => :author, :title => :title}

    api.backend = :Sphinx
  end
end

class Admin::DocumentController < ApplicationController
  uber_auto_completion_for :document
end

class DocumentController < ApplicationController
  uber_auto_completion_for :document, {:scopes => [:active, :published]}

  def index
  end
  #...
end

LINKS WORTH CONSIDERING FOR INCORPORATION¶ ↑

developer.yahoo.com/yui/autocomplete/ www.alistapart.com/articles/accent-folding-for-auto-complete/