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RailsCasts #251 MetaWhere & MetaSearch
Railscasts - 2011-01-31 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #240 Search, Sort, Paginate with AJAX
Railscasts - 2010-11-15 - free
Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #212 Refactoring & Dynamic Delegator
Railscasts - 2010-05-03 - free
Learn how to refactor a set of conditional Active Record queries using a Dynamic Delegator.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #176 Searchlogic
Railscasts - 2009-08-24 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #120 Thinking Sphinx
Railscasts - 2008-07-28 - free
If you need a full text search engine, Thinking Sphinx is a great solution. See why in this episode.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #111 Advanced Search Form
Railscasts - 2008-05-26 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #88 Dynamic Select Menus
Railscasts - 2008-01-13 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #37 Simple Search Form
Railscasts - 2007-05-28 - free
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.
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