Find multiple strings collected in an array

rubyonrails-talk
1

Hello Everybody, I am have an advance search form in which i have a field called :name in which user can enter 1 or multiple words. When there is more than 1 word, i am splitting that string and collecting it in to an array.

@collect = Array.new @collect << name.split( )

this gives me an array ["John", "whatever", "anyother"] how can i find each item in the array in my rails app?

help appreciated.

Thanks in Advance - S

2

Hello Everybody, I am have an advance search form in which i have a field called :name in which user can enter 1 or multiple words. When there is more than 1 word, i am splitting that string and collecting it in to an array.

@collect = Array.new @collect << name.split( )

this gives me an array ["John", "whatever", "anyother"] how can i find each item in the array in my rails app?

This isn't specific enough to know for sure what you want, but I'm going to assume that you want to search a specific model on a specific field for each of those terms... if it was me, I would do it like this. Assume a model of Widget that has a 'title' string field...

# in my controller action... # with params[:name] being passed in via the form... def search   @widgets = Widget.all(:conditions => ["title IN (?)", params[:name].split(/[ ,]/)]) end

That would let you type in "John, whatever anyother" and have it work both on spaces and commas. It's not very efficient though as it's an *exact* match so If you have a widget named 'Jon' it won't find it.

You may want to look into sphinx or whatever full text search options your database provides...

-philip