Question

I successfully installed and set it up searchlogic for basic (keyword) searching. I have the following problem:

@search = Proposal.search(params[:search])
@proposals = @search.all

The above code works properly if I type in a keyword such as “red”. It will bring up everything with red keyword. Or if I type in “green”, it will bring up everything with green as a keyword. However, when I type “red green” in the search box it will ONLY bring up cases where the keywords are BOTH red and green (and not bring up instances where they may only have one of the two keywords). Yes, I am using keywords_like_any. I can see what the general problem is via debug, keywords_like_any: green red. The below code works as I want it to (bring up any instances of red OR green).

@search2 = Proposal.keywords_like_any("red", "green")
@test = @search2.all

I believe what I need to do to solve the issue is turn the first code to view params[:search] as an array? I tried doing params[:string].to_s.split (as shown in railscast) however it did not work.

Answer 1

The *_like_any is intended to be used with checkboxes form helpers (f.check_box) which outputs arrays into your params hash as opposed to f.text_field which outputs strings. If you still want to use them with a f.text_field you can :

• split the field with Javascript on client side to output an Array
• split it in your controller

Considering that your field is named keyboard here is some code that should solve your problem :

params[:search][:keywords_like_any] = params[:search][:keywords_like_any].split(' ')
@proposals = Proposal.search(params[:search])

You can skip the line @proposals = @search.all because search results works like an array.