Demo application for rails-simple-search

This is a rails 7 application. It demostrates the simplicity and power of gem rails-simple-search.

Installation

After cloning the project to your local, run the following command:

$ cd rails_simple_search_demo
$ bundle install
$ bin/rails db:migrate
$ bin/rails db:fixtures:load  # optional
$ bin/dev

Versions

This project used Ruby 3.1.4, Rails 7.1.4, and RailsSimpleSearch 1.2.0.

Explanation

In this demo, I'm trying to search for a user by part of her name, her post titles, her comments, her address, her city, her state and so on.

The following is the code related to the search:

1. In file "Gemfile"

gem 'rails-simple-search', '>=1.1.9'

2. In file "app/model"Search"

class Search < RailsSimpleSearch::Base
end

3. In file "config/route.rb"

post 'users/index', controller: 'users', action: 'index', as: :search_users

4. In file "app/controllers/users_controllers"

@search = Search.new(:user, params[:search], exact_match: :first_name)
@users = @search.run.order(:first_name)

5. In file "app/views/users/index.html.erb"

<%= form_for @search, url: search_users_path, data: {turbo: false} do |f| %>
  <%= f.label "First Name" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'first_name' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Last Name" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'last_name' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Age" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'age_greater_than_equal_to' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Address1" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'address.address1' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "City" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'address.city' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Post title" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'posts.title' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Post title or body" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'posts.title_or_posts.body' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Comment" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'comments.body' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.label "Author who commented my posts", class: "block" %>
  <%= f.text_field 'posts.comments.user.first_name_or_posts.comments.user.last_name' %>
  <br/>
  <%= f.submit "search" %>
<% end %>

For more info about rails-simple-search, please see https://github.com/yzhanginwa/rails-simple-search.