Ruby on the Rails Search Functionality 2nd attempt
My first attempt is here. However that lacked a search box. It was neat in that you could reference the search directly as http://blah/blah/searchstring. However that’s not really what we want, as we want to use search forms and such….
So attempt 2.
First add routes for 2 net methods to routes.rb:
resources :words do
collection do
get 'dosearch'
get 'search'
end
end
I then added 2 new methods to the appropriate controller:
def search
@words = Word.where("word = ?",params[:id]) #all #find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.html # search.html.erb
format.json { render json: @words }
end
end
def dosearch
@word = ""
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.json { render json: word }
end
end
The first method is as before, and performs the search. The second method really just returns the search html. Perhaps I shouldn’t be using a method for this at all? Just some static html?
Then I added a dosearch.html.erb which will render the search form:
<h1>Search for word</h1> <%= render 'searchform' %> <%= link_to 'Back', words_path %>
And a _searchform.html.erb which /actually/ renders the form:
%= form_tag("/words/search", :method => "get") do %>
<%= label_tag(:q, "Search for:") %>
<%= text_field_tag(:id) %>
<%= submit_tag("Search") %>
<% end %>
Next I added a search.html.erb for the search results:
<h1>Search Results</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Word</th>
<th>Definition</th>
<th>Tags</th>
<th></th>
<th></th>
<th></th>
</tr>
<% @words.each do |word| %>
<tr>
<td><%= word.word %></td>
<td><%= word.tags %></td>
<td><%= word.definition %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', word %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_word_path(word) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', word, confirm: 'Are you sure?', method: :delete %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</table>
<br />
<%= link_to 'New Word', new_word_path %>
<% if session[:user_id] %>
<%= button_to 'Logout', logout_path, method: :delete %>
<% end %>
</div>
<div id="main" >
<%= yield %>
Which is pretty much a standard index.html.erb to return a list.
That is all.
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