Okay so I have a typical search page where a keyword is entered and
results are retrieved that match the keyword. What I want to do now is
have checkboxes to search for results in specific areas (my site is a
big events calendar with “streams” and “audiences”) I want to use the
checkboxes to look for results in ‘streams’, ‘audiences’, or both. I
want to be able to return either true or false from a method depending
on whether or not a box is checked. I have no idea how to do this, I’ve
only used checkboxes with a database before, and I don’t want to use
columns in a database for this.
This is my setup so far:
in search view:
<% form_for :event do |f| %>
<label for="stream_search">Search Streams</label> <%= f.check_box
:search_streams, {:class=> "check"} %><br />
<label for="aud_search">Search Audiences</label> <%= f.check_box
:search_auds, {:class=> "check"} %> <br />
<% end %>
and I want to be able to somehow get these methods in the event model to
return either true or false depending on the checkboxes so I can use
them in if-statements in my search method:
[code=] def search_streams
true
end
def search_auds
true
end[/code]
Thanks in advance for any help!