Hello,
I am new in rails and I am working in an application which requires
advanced search.
I have a model called Item which has various attributes like “weight”,
“price”, “category”, “age”…and then it has some “keywords”,
describing the Item.
I would like to implement an advanced search where the users can
search Items using the attributes that they want.
After googling some time, I found that:
- acts_as_taggable could be useful for the “keywords” attribute.
- acts_as_ferret could be useful for searching the tags (I would need
to search for multiple tags in the same query, include some fuzzy
search…) - Searchlogic would be very useful to implement the search with all
the attributes, but I am not sure if it can cope with the
acts_as_taggable plugin, or if I should implement the keywords just
using a String attribute, or how to do it.
Well, I know I have a lot of work to do, but I would really appreciate
if someone could give me some hints in order to point the direction in
which I should work. Which is the best way (or simplest) in your
opinion to implement this search?
The application will have to deal with “many” records (lets say
100.000), so I would also appreciate receiving some comments regarding
speed…however it doesn’t have to be the faster app in the world, in
this moment I prefer an easier development and I’ll improve the app in
the future if needed.
Thanks a lot for your help.