Question

Trying to implement search with Sunspot Gem wich is using Solr.Fulltext search works fine however adding extra search params returning zero results. Red all docs but to no avail I dont see my error, if any in below code. Any advise on how to fix this? I RE-indexed existing records.

ProfilesController#index

@search = Profile.search do

      fulltext params[:search]

      if params[:search].present?
        fulltext params[:description] do
          highlight :description
        end
      end

      if params[:gender].present?
        with :gender
      end
      paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 2)
    end

    @profiles = @search.results

profiles.rb model

searchable do
    text :description
    string :gender 
end

My search form:

= simple_form_for profiles_path, :method => :get  do |f|

  = text_field_tag :search, params[:search]  << this works
  = text_field_tag :gender, params[:gender]  << adding this line returns 0 result

Params gender can be “male” or “female” without quotes this param is also submitted by the form.

Answer 1

Try this

if params[:gender].present?
      with :gender,  params[:gender]
  end

and use select tag

<%= select_tag 'gender', options_for_select([['Male', 'male'], ['Female', 'female']]), :prompt => 'Select Gender' %>`