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Activescaffold Advanced Search Plugin
A rails plugin to use in combination with activescaffold.
It enhances the built-in search of activescaffold:
- Search on specific fields
- Support for different field types: string/text, integer, boolean
- Different comparison operators :
- equals
- contains
- starts with
- ends with
- <
- >
A simple example to get started :
STEP 1 : Check your Rails version
$ rails --version
Rails 2.3.5
STEP 2 : Generate your Rails app structure
$ rails astest
$ cd astest/
STEP 3 : Create a model
$ script/generate model Book author:string title:string summary:string isbn:string
STEP 4 : Create a controller
$ script/generate controller Books
STEP 5 : Setup database
$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
STEP 6 : Install active scaffold (master for Rails 2.3) and active scaffold search
$ script/plugin install git://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold.git
$ script/plugin install git://github.com/xaop/activescaffold_advanced_search
STEP 7 : Define admin.rhtml layout for activescaffold
Taken from http://activescaffold.com/tutorials/getting-started<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Generic ActiveScaffold Layout</title>
<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
<%= active_scaffold_includes %>
</head>
<body>
<%= yield %>
</body>
</html>
STEP 8 : Config controllers
class BooksController < ApplicationController
layout "admin"
active_scaffold
end
STEP 9 : Activate active scaffold advanced search
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
helper :all # include all helpers, all the time
protect_from_forgery # See ActionController::RequestForgeryProtection for details
ActiveScaffold.set_defaults do |conf|
conf.actions.exclude :search
conf.actions.add :advanced_search
end
# Scrub sensitive parameters from your log
# filter_parameter_logging :password
end
STEP 10 : Start server and check result
$ script/server
