Rails 5 Search Facets Filters

Question

I would like to add the ability to filter records using facets. I know Elastic Search can help with it, but I don't want to setup an elastic search server. I am looking for a really easy solution. I would like to have the search and facets filters run on Postgres and Ruby on Rails 5. Any recommendations?

Answer 1

If you don't want to setup ElasticSearch/Solr server,

FortyFacets appears to be a very good option. It lets you easily build faceted search based on fields of your models (see Active Record model pattern).