An advice for search

I have a Shop model with some attributes:

role_number :integer(10)
role_date :date
name :string(255)
ssn :string(255)
nationality :string(255)
address :string(255)
number :string(255)
website :string(255)
district :integer(10)
sector :string(255)
square_meters :integer(131089)
duaap :integer(10)
description :string(255)
state :string(255)
notes :text

I want to create a form for searching on one field or on two fields or
on three fields…or on all fields.
There is a gem that facilitate this work?
I’m thinking about meta_search, what do you think about?

I use searchlogic. This gem is very easy.
Look this page ‘GitHub - binarylogic/searchlogic: Searchlogic provides object based searching, common named scopes, and other useful tools.

2011/4/29 Mauro [email protected]

district :integer(10)
I’m thinking about meta_search, what do you think about?


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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Mauro [email protected] wrote:

district :integer(10)
I’m thinking about meta_search, what do you think about?

I just used MetaSearch for the first time last month and love it. I
found it
very easy to work with and quite powerful.

On 29 April 2011 23:52, David K. [email protected] wrote:

nationality :string(255)

I want to create a form for searching on one field or on two fields or
on three fields…or on all fields.
There is a gem that facilitate this work?
I’m thinking about meta_search, what do you think about?

I just used MetaSearch for the first time last month and love it. I found it
very easy to work with and quite powerful.

What solution do you adopt?
A form with all fields in it?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Mauro [email protected] wrote:

ssn :string(255)
notes :text
What solution do you adopt?
A form with all fields in it?

If you use MetaSearch, it helps you build your form – see the readme:

Now, the app I was working on was more complicated so I did actually
create
a class so that I could use form builder on my own, and then wrap
metasearch
behind that. The form consisted of a number of filters. But even if I
went
straight to metasearch, yes, I would use a form with the fields I want
to
search which may or may not map to the actual fields I am searching.

On 29 April 2011 23:50, Carina B. [email protected] wrote:

I use searchlogic. This gem is very easy.
Look this page ‘GitHub - binarylogic/searchlogic: Searchlogic provides object based searching, common named scopes, and other useful tools.

In this asciicast
http://asciicasts.com/episodes/251-metawhere-metasearch is said that
searchlogic doesn’t work with rails 3.

Sorry, i went at my gemfile and i saw what i use for search is
meta_search.
Execuse me.

2011/4/30 Mauro [email protected]

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On 1 May 2011 21:12, Carina B. [email protected] wrote:

Sorry, i went at my gemfile and i saw what i use for search is meta_search.
Execuse me.

I’m trying meta_search now. :slight_smile:

+1 for meta_search, I <3 that thing

On 30 April 2011 00:13, David K. [email protected] wrote:

square_meters :integer(131089)
I just used MetaSearch for the first time last month and love it. I
found it
very easy to work with and quite powerful.

What solution do you adopt?
A form with all fields in it?

If you use MetaSearch, it helps you build your form – see the readme:
GitHub - activerecord-hackery/meta_search: Object-based searching (and more) for simply creating search forms. Not currently maintained.

If I want to search base on values on all fields I must create a long
form.
I’ve found http://www.2dconcept.com/jquery-grid-rails-plugin it seems
nice, what do you think about?

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Phoenix R.
[email protected]wrote:

+1 for meta_search, I <3 that thing

You know I almost cried the first time I used meta_search… in the
past I
have written my own searches

Also, and I should have said this before, I noticed that in your
property list it looks like you’re storing social security numbers
(SSN). I just want to add a friendly word of advice - encrypt them if
you can. I can see a lot of havoc happening if some hacker got his
hands on a list of unencrypted (or weakly encrypted) SSN’s, both from
the standpoint of the person who’s identity might be stolen, and for
your organization, who may end up fielding a LOT of lawsuits as a
result if something like that happens.

Here’s a link to one approach that I’ve used myself before, and I
thought it worked rather well:
http://stuff-things.net/2007/06/11/encrypting-sensitive-data-with-ruby-on-rails/

Good luck!

On 2 May 2011 00:20, Phoenix R. [email protected] wrote:

Also, and I should have said this before, I noticed that in your
property list it looks like you’re storing social security numbers
(SSN). I just want to add a friendly word of advice - encrypt them if
you can. I can see a lot of havoc happening if some hacker got his
hands on a list of unencrypted (or weakly encrypted) SSN’s, both from
the standpoint of the person who’s identity might be stolen, and for
your organization, who may end up fielding a LOT of lawsuits as a
result if something like that happens.

Thank you very much for your important advice.

Hi,
I also using meta search
I have one question how to use meta search for more than two fields ?
and if the fields has different data type …will it work?

@David kahn Could u please give some direction how u create a class and
used
meta search in behind
Please share code to do this if possible.

Regards,
Shyam

http://shyam.heroku.com/

On May 2, 7:15am, shyam [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
I also using meta search
I have one question how to use meta search for more than two fields ?
and if the fields has different data type …will it work?

You can do:

<%= f.text_field :field1_or_field2_equals %>

Needless to say, if you get to the point where you’re doing something
like…

<%=

f.text_field :field1_or_field2_or_field3_or_field4_or_field5_equals %>

…then you really don’t want to be using something like MetaSearch –
you want to go with a fulltext search gem like Thinknig Sphinx.