Latest Free Screencasts

MetaWhere provides a way to do complex find conditions without SQL in Active Record. MetaSearch makes it easy to create search forms with many find options.

Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX.

Learn how to refactor a set of conditional Active Record queries using a Dynamic Delegator.

Searchlogic makes searching models easier than ever with its assortment of named scopes. In this episode I show you how to create simple and advanced searches.

If you need a full text search engine, Thinking Sphinx is a great solution. See why in this episode.

If you need to create an advanced search with a lot of fields, it may not be ideal to use a GET request as I showed in episode 37. In this episode I will show you how to handle this by creating a Search resource.

See how to dynamically change a select menu based on another select menu using Javascript. In this episode everything is kept client side which leads to a more responsive user interface.

A search form is quite different than other forms, this is because it does not deal with model's attributes. See a good way to add a simple search form in this episode.