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mbajur
mbajur

Reputation: 4484

Search engine similar to gmail

I'm looking for a search engine, which will let my users to search my website using syntax similar to this gmail's one.

My website is a map-based directory of restaurants and shops so it would be lovely to make it possible to search it using strings like those:

Restaurant's name city:Boston diet:vegetarian
Restaurant's name country:Belgium tags:fast-food
Restaurant's name country:Poland diet:vegan tags:pizza
etc...

Have you any idea what can i use to achieve such a functionality? I've browsed all of the solutions from ruby-toolbox but most of them requires to have some kind of special search server set up. I can do that on my VPS but at first i would love to hear your opinion which one is the most powerfull, dev-friendly and which one covers the functionality described above. Thank you in advance! :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 166

Answers (2)

dandai
dandai

Reputation: 26

How about https://github.com/makandra/dusen gem?

It supports gmail-like token search!

Upvotes: 1

ABrukish
ABrukish

Reputation: 1452

You could try to use regexp to extract search params from request:

search_pairs = params[:search].scan(/([a-zA-Z]+):([a-zA-Z]+)/)
>> [ ['country', 'Poland'], ['diet', 'vegan'] ]

Upvotes: 1

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