basic search plugin complete

app/controllers/search_controller.rb

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+class SearchController < ApplicationController
+
+  before_filter :find_page
+
+	# Display search results given the query supplied
+  def show
+    @results = SearchEngine.search(params[:query], params[:page])
+    present(@page)
+  end
+
+protected
+
+  def find_page
+    @page = Page.find_by_link_url("/search")
+  end
+
+end

app/helpers/search_helper.rb

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+module SearchHelper
+
+	# this is where you register your result URLs based on the
+	# type of result we're dealing with
+	def result_url(result)
+		table_name = result.class.to_s.tableize
+		case table_name
+		when "news_items"
+			"/news/#{result.to_param}"
+		else
+			"/#{table_name}/#{result.to_param}"
+		end
+	end
+
+end

app/models/search_engine.rb

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+class SearchEngine
+
+	# How many results should we show per page
+	RESULTS_LIMIT = 10
+
+	# Perform search over the specified models
+	def self.search(query, page = 1)
+		if query.present?
+			results = []
+
+			# TODO need to come up with something clever here to allow it to search
+			# over multiple plugins that are registered with Refinery to do so
+			# rather than hardcoding it
+			[Page, NewsItem].each do |model|
+				results << model.find_with_index(query, :limit => RESULTS_LIMIT)
+			end
+
+			results.flatten[0..(RESULTS_LIMIT - 1)]
+		else
+			[] # not results for no query
+		end
+	end
+
+end

app/views/search/show.html.erb

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+<% content_for :body_content_page_title do %>
+  Search Results for '<%=h params[:query] %>'
+<% end %>
+
+<% content_for :body_content_left do %>
+  <ul id="search_results">
+    <% @results.each do |result| %>
+      <li>
+        <span class='result_type'>
+          <%= result.class.to_s.titleize %>
+        </span>
+        <%= link_to result.title, result_url(result) %>
+      </li>
+    <% end %>
+  </ul>
+
+<% end %>
+
+<%= render :partial => "/shared/content_page" %>
+
+<style type='text/css'>
+  #search_results {
+    list-style: none;
+    padding: 0;
+    margin: 0;
+  }
+
+  #search_results li {
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #CCC;
+  }
+
+  #search_results li span.result_type {
+    float: right;
+    color: #CCC;
+  }
+</style>

app/views/shared/_search.html.erb

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+<% form_tag search_url do -%>
+  <%= text_field_tag :query, {}, {:type => "search",
+                     :placeholder => (params[:query] || "Search site for...")} %>
+  <%= submit_tag 'Go' %>
+<% end %>

config/routes.rb

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+ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
+
+  map.search "/search", :controller => 'search', :action => 'show'
+
+	map.resource :search_result, :controller => 'search'
+
+end

rails/init.rb

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+Refinery::Plugin.register do |plugin|
+  plugin.title = "Search"
+  plugin.description = "Add a site search engine to your Refinery site."
+  plugin.version = 1.0
+	plugin.hide_from_menu = true
+end