http://eric.lubow.org/2010/ruby/rails/model-specific-formatted-search-results-using-thinking-sphinx/ Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla. Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:34:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://eric.lubow.org/2010/ruby/rails/model-specific-formatted-search-results-using-thinking-sphinx/comment-page-1/#comment-26133 dean_genlighten Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:03:00 +0000 http://eric.lubow.org/?p=538#comment-26133 Hi Ben... thanks for this post... it looks very helpful and I'm eager to try implementing it in my app. Can you offer any details on your search box/form itself, and how you hook it up with your search_controller? In particular:nn*how is :model passed back through the params hash? Could I use that approach if I have a dropdown next to my search box that, for example, lets the user choose to search either the "projects" or "updates" models?nn*how are the keywords in the search query passed? Do you just have a search form with form_tag placed in a partial? Which view holds that form?nnMost of the search implementations I've found seem to have search reside within the index action of a particular controller/model, so I found yours particularly valuable since I'm interested in search across several models at once.nnThanks,nnDean RichardsonnGenlighten.comnn Hi Ben… thanks for this post… it looks very helpful and I’m eager to try implementing it in my app. Can you offer any details on your search box/form itself, and how you hook it up with your search_controller? In particular:nn*how is :model passed back through the params hash? Could I use that approach if I have a dropdown next to my search box that, for example, lets the user choose to search either the “projects” or “updates” models?nn*how are the keywords in the search query passed? Do you just have a search form with form_tag placed in a partial? Which view holds that form?nnMost of the search implementations I’ve found seem to have search reside within the index action of a particular controller/model, so I found yours particularly valuable since I’m interested in search across several models at once.nnThanks,nnDean RichardsonnGenlighten.comnn

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