rails text search

This tutorial shows you how to search your data at your Rails application. we will use an easy, and flixible plugin called ferret.

ready? follow up:

• install ferret gem:


gem install ferret

• install ferret plugin:

script/plugin install svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret

• at your model add the following line:

act_as_ferret or customize your search to only some fields like this: act_as_ferret :fields => [:name, :firstname, :surename]

• now your database fields are searchable.

to search your data type: .find_by_contents("osama OR dwairi") and walk through them as array