Need advise with search / browsing

Rails
1

hi,

have a JOB-model, which belongs_to a variety of other models, eg:
Industry, Category etc…
i have:
######################
controller:

def browse
@jobs = Job.all

@jobind = JobIndustry.all
@jobcat = JobCategory.all
@joblevelexp = LevelOfExperience.all
@joblevelcareer = LevelOfCareer.all
@jobleveledu = LevelOfEdu.all
@jobyearsexp = YearsOfExperience.all
@joblocation = JobLocation.all



respond_to do |format|
  format.html # index.html.erb
  format.xml  { render :xml => @jobs }
end

end
######################
view:
literates through all the variables from the controller, and displays
them each a html-div including a COUNT of the JOBS.

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question:

i want to transform the html-output into a link, so that if i click eg
onto the INDUSTRY: “Telephone” or whatever, i want the whole result to
be filtered. not sure how to do that…

an live example is monster.com, when u got o browse jobs.

//this is just a learning platform

thx tom

2

am i better of with that ?(from the api):

Post.find(:all, :include => [ :author, :comments ], :conditions =>
[‘comments.approved = ?’, true])

can i add as many conditions as i want to the individual associations?

thx

3

Check out the searchlogic gem, it will make your life way easier on
this.

Jarin U.
Robot Mode LLC