Active Search:

Active Search gives you an easy way to add a search feature to any active record model. Just include the gem and call search on any ActiveRecord class passing the query string as a parameter.

Overview:

Adds a simple search class method to every class that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base.

Setup:

# config/environment.rb
config.gem 'active_search'

Examples:

# Simple search for a store with a zipcode of 92688
Store.search('92688') #=> [<#Store id: 1, zipcode: '92688'>,<#Store id: 2, zipcode: '92688'>]

Customization:

# You can specify columns to ignore with the config block
# All columns will be excluded from searching

class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base
  active_search_config do |config|
    config.active_search_exclude_columns = [:id, :url]
  end
end