Resource Search

What's resource search all about? I started out by asking if there was a {convention for RESTful search in Rails}[http://woss.name/2007/07/22/convention-for-restful-search-in-rails/] and, well, nobody responded in the positive. I then took a look at how ActiveResource#find works for searching ActiveResource models. It turns out that we can take that as the 'convention' and build from there.

Example

A very quick example.

class ResourceController < ApplicationController
  resource_search
  
  def index
    # ...
  end
end

class Resource < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Now calling something along the lines of:

http://localhost/resources?resource[title]=foo

will create a scope limiting whatever index searches for to items where 'title' is (by default) LIKE '%foo%'.

It will get better than that at some point, though, promise. :-)

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