Comments on: Ruby Text Search

By: Leif

Leif — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:03:49 +0000

Hi Dave,

i send you an email.
“Title” is an field in the table “offers”.

See’ya
Leif

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:45:14 +0000

Looks about the same as what I do. The only difference I see is that use:

require ’search’

instead of

require_dependency ’search’

Is title an attribute of your Offer model?

Please dump what the log spits out when you hit the search action. I’m curious to see what it’s doing. Feel free to remove anything you don’t want to be seen, or you can email it to me @ dave [at] davedupre.com.

By: Leif

Leif — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:32:34 +0000

OK.

Controller looks like:
————————————–
def search
if params[:query]
@offers = Offer.search(params[:query])
else
@offers = []
end
end
————————————–

Model:
————————————–
require_dependency “search”

class Offer < ActiveRecord::Base
searches_on :all
end
————————————–

Form:
————————————–
{:action => :search} do |f| %>

————————————–

View for results:
————————————–

There were no results for your query

Result:

————————————–

Thanks for your help!
See’ya
Leif

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:31:23 +0000

I need a little more info. Based on your comment, it looks like there is a number being loaded into something that is expected to be a model. Please update a little bit of your code, and I can take a look.

By: Leif

Leif — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:31:36 +0000

Hi Dave!

I’m new to Rails and trying to build an small test app which uses your search script. At the moment i get the error
—
undefined method `title’ for 0:Fixnum
—
I don’t know what went wrong. Any hints?

Thanks in advance.
Leif

By: Ryan Svoboda

Ryan Svoboda — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:34:18 +0000

Thanks for the code, working great so far

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:51:22 +0000

My pleasure. Glad I could help.

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:39:00 +0000

Hi Dave, I found the code in the rails wiki and gave it a try… It was giving me a little error with the :includes, but I’ve tested your version and works perfect for me!
I felt I should leave you a message: Thank you so much

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:00:14 +0000

My pleasure. Thanks for the comment. I don’t know why I bothered to comment section out since I never would have used that option anyway. I’ve always used MySQL or MS SQL Server, and both of those default to case insensitive searches. Therefore, I pulled it out for my purposes.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:48:43 +0000

Dear Dave,

Thank you vey much for the code. It worked well.

I just want to give a quick warning to about case sensitivity. If you are using Oracle you need to uncomment the following code:

# DND: no need for this since mysql is already case insensitive.
unless options[:case] == :sensitive
text.downcase!
fields.map! { |f| “LOWER(#{f})” }
end

Thanks again for your help.