Improve (Advanced) Search Functionality

[mvastola]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No

Describe the solution you'd like

I've noticed a couple of minor annoyances (which can be solved with -- what I think/hope are -- equally minor fixes) with the Search (mostly Advanced Search) feature, and thought I'd reduce them to a ticket in the hopes they can be addressed:

• When clicking Advanced Search from a results page, the fields on the resulting Advanced Search page should be filled in.

• When pressing Enter from within any of the fields on the Advanced Search page, the form should be submitted.

• On the results page, among the pre-populated "Filters" listed below the search bar, there should be one for number of total downloads (or downloads this version). The only other filters that can narrow down the list to popular gems are the filters by Last Updated Date, and those are less ideal because they are liable to omit stable/mature gems in favor of pre-alpha type gems that are not yet usable.

  An alternate (or additional) option that would be helpful would be the ability to sort by such values in addition to simply filtering.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The obvious alternative for all of the above is to look through every single match, but that can be an onerous task. For some of the suggestions, manually writing filters or else trying multiple different filter values would suffice.

[sonalkr132]

All of these sound good improvements to me. We would welcome any work done to resolve these. 1 and 2 will mostly need some client-side js.

among the pre-populated "Filters" listed below the search bar, there should be one for number of total downloads (or downloads this version)

the search documents only store total gem download. you can add an aggregation for downloads similar to this https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/blob/master/lib/elastic_searcher.rb#L80

[karansapolia]

Hey @sonalkr132, I'd like to work on these features. Can I pick this one up?

[sonalkr132]

Have at it. You can ask for help in #rubygems-org at https://bundler.slack.com/ if you need.

[rzhade3]

👋 @sonalkr132! I took a stab at addressing point 2 of this ticket over in #2833

[simi]

When clicking Advanced Search from a results page, the fields on the resulting Advanced Search page should be filled in.

@rzhade3 would you mind to contribute that as well? It is about to pass the query URL param on the advanced link. It is already pre-populated on advanced when present. See https://rubygems.org/search/advanced?query=rails for example.

When pressing Enter from within any of the fields on the Advanced Search page, the form should be submitted.

Seems merged. 💪

On the results page, among the pre-populated "Filters" listed below the search bar, there should be one for number of total downloads (or downloads this version). The only other filters that can narrow down the list to popular gems are the filters by Last Updated Date, and those are less ideal because they are liable to omit stable/mature gems in favor of pre-alpha type gems that are not yet usable.

An alternate (or additional) option that would be helpful would be the ability to sort by such values in addition to simply filtering.

Would you mind to provide example of that requested filter?