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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:56:28+00:00

What’s the best way to implement an interface that looks like this in rails?

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What’s the best way to implement an interface that looks like this in rails?

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Currently I’m using Searchlogic, and it’s a tad painful. Problems include:

  • Making sure certain operations remain orthogonal — for example, if you select “Short Posts” and then search, your search results should be restricted to short posts.

  • Making sure the correct link gets the “selected” class. Right now the links are <a>‘s, so maintaining this state client-side is tricky. I’m hacking it by having the AJAX response to, say, sorting return a new sort links section with the correct link “selected”. Using radio buttons instead of <a> tags would make it easier to maintain state client-side — maybe I should do that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I recently solved a similar problem using named_scopes and some ruby metaprogramming that I rolled up into a plugin called find_by_filter.

    find_by_filter accepts a hash of scope
    names and values, and chains them into
    parametised scope calls. If the model has a named_scope that matches the provided name, this is called.If no named_scope is found, an anonymous scope is created.

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