Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
Craig White wrote:
I have a scaffolded page that shows me all the records in a table. Now, I added a simple FIND to allow you to filter the list. The text box form code is something like this:
<form action="/roads/find" method="post">
<p><label>Road Name:</label> <input type="text_field" name="name" size="40"></p>
<input type="submit" value="Find"></p>
</form>
and the 'find' action is as follows:
def find
if request.post?
qa=
qv=
if params[:name]
qa << ['name like ?']
str = '%' + params[:name] + '%'
qv << str
end
@condition = [qa.join(' and ')] + qv
@road_pages, @roads = paginate(:roads,
:per_page => 20,
:conditions => @condition,
:order_by => @sort_order)
end
render :action => 'list'
end
All this works fine and the first page shows up fine! The problem is with the pagination. When you click on the 'next' page, naturally it loses the search conditions. How do I make them stick? I know there's a simple answer but it's eluding me 
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wish it were that simple.
You have to pass the params with the 'next page' link.
I have gotten to the point where I put the 'search params' and 'sort
params' into session variables and each time I invoke the list view, I
deduce/set the session variables so I don't have to track them through
passed params from each next|previous link
Craig
Thanks Craig,
I am now doing something like that. Since 'name' is my only condition, I added the following line to the controller's find action storing the "name" as an instance variable so that I can access it in the view.
@s_name = params[:name]
Also, I'm now using find.rhtml as the template instead of rendering the list.rhtml as I had hoped.
Then, I added this to the find.rhtml for the pagination:
<%= link_to 'Previous page', { :page => @road_pages.current.previous, :name => @s_name }, :post => true if @road_pages.current.previous %>
<%= link_to 'Next page', { :page => @road_pages.current.next, :name => @s_name}, :post => true if @road_pages.current.next %>
This works, but it requires me to have a different view page for the search (as against reusing the list.rhtml). Also, it's perfectly fine for 1 search parameter, but it gets more complicated if there are a number of parameters...
Any ideas?
Here are some snippets from some code I wrote many months ago -
in the controller:
def list
filter = params[:filter]
conds = nil
if filter && !filter.blank?
conds = ['name like ?', filter + '%']
end
@paginator, @items = paginate :pages,
:per_page => 30,
:conditions => conds,
:order => 'name ASC'
end
and in the view:
...
<!-- Would prefer to use GET, but it isn't working -->
<%= form_tag :action => :list %>
Filter: <%= text_field_tag :filter, @params[:filter] %>
<input type="submit" value="Go">
<%= end_form_tag %>
Page: <%= pagination_links(@paginator,
:params => {:filter => @params[:filter]}) %>
<hr/>
...
Now I wanted to use GET in the above code to make the first page bookmarkable, but it didn't work on first try and I didn't spend any time investigating it. If you find out how, I'd be interested to know.
regards
Justin Forder