Simple_autocomplete and find: same inputs but diff order

Rails
1

I’ve used the the simple_autocomplete plugins to search a City tables
with 2millions records.

However, I modified the :order parameters of the “find” function in the
plugin so that “San Francisco, US” will always pop up first.

Something weird tho, whenever I restart the server, the suggestions are
correct in the first time; but then the :order does not work.

It is weird that the same inputs can generate different results.

Is it something related to caching or any other clues?

thanks!!!
Arthur

2

Hi,

could you post the relevant code where you change the behaviour of
the find and :order ?

cioa, tom

On Feb 2, 2:27 am, Arthur C. [email protected]
wrote:

However, I modified the :order parameters of the “find” function in the
plugin so that “San Francisco, US” will always pop up first.

–
Thomas R. “TomK32” Koll <> http://ananasblau.com
just a geek trying to change the world
TomK32 (Thomas R. Koll) · GitHub

3

Thomas r. Koll wrote:

Hi,

could you post the relevant code where you change the behaviour of
the find and :order ?

cioa, tom

Hi Tom,

I modified the autocomplete_for function in autocomplete.rb

# arthur: override the find_order options find_options = { :conditions => [ "LOWER(#{method}) LIKE ?", '%'+params[:q].to_s.downcase + '%' ], :order => options.delete(:find_order) || "#{method} ASC", # arthur, allow customization of find order :limit => options[:limit] || 10 }.merge!(options) 
      # arthur, customize find methods
      find_method = find_options.delete(:find_method)
      if options[:find_method]
        @items =

object.to_s.camelize.constantize.send(options[:find_method],
params[:q].to_s.downcase, find_options)
else
@items = object.to_s.camelize.constantize.find(:all,
find_options)
end

Therefore, in my controller,

#autocomplete_for :city, :city, :limit => 15
autocomplete_for :city, :city, :limit => 10,
:find_method => “autocomplete_for_ccr”,
:find_order => “priority DESC, AccentCity, country, region” do
|items|
items.map{|item|
“#{item.ccr(:capitalize=>true)}|#{item.cr}|#{item.country}”}.join("\n")
end

I supposed that the suggestions will be ordered by the priority field in
my cities table, but it is not always true.

On the other hand, I use jQuery autocomplete as the javascript plugins.

Arthur

4

Hi,

I dare to ask but is the data the same in dev and prod?

A second thing, there’s a bit difference between merge and merge!
please try
without the !

And last but not least: I think these two lines are wrong, but I’m not
sure what
should be used for the if statement

find_method = find_options.delete(:find_method)
if options[:find_method]

ciao, tom

–
Thomas R. “TomK32” Koll <> http://ananasblau.com
just a geek trying to change the world
TomK32 (Thomas R. Koll) · GitHub

5

More info for the problem:

The plugins runs fine in development mode but production mode only!

Thanks,
Arthur