Multi_column_search is a project mainly written in Ruby, it's free.
Simple Search for text in multiple columns.
= Multi Column Search Plugin
v 0.0.2
Quick and dirty multi column LIKE searches. Need to search accross multiple columns, like company(name, address, city, state, zip)
Running lots of queries or have a large data set? You should probably upgrade to a real search back-end already!
== Install as plugin
rails plugin install git://github.com/jackhq/multi_column_search.git
== Examples
Add a search method to your model by calling multi_column_search with the fields you want to search.
class Company multi_column_search :name, :address, :city, :state, :zip end
Search for a single or multi value across all searched columns.
Company.search('Sam Comp') # => any company with name, address, city, state, zip containing with Sam Comp
== Install
Rails 3 Gem
bundle install
== Docs
http://rdoc.info/projects/jackhq/multi_column_search
Homepage:: http://github.com/jackhq/multi_column_search License:: Copyright (c) 2010 Jack Russell Software Company mailto:[email protected], released under the MIT license.
== Credits
Completely inspired from "simple_column_search" by Elijah Miller : http://github.com/jqr/simple_column_search