Searchlogic‘s goal is to keep your application free of searching clutter. It‘s is an ActiveRecord extension that allows you to perform simple and complex searches with a hash:

  @search = User.new_search(params[:search])
  @users = @search.all

These are just the basics of Searchlogic, it can do a lot more, including pagination, ordering data, etc.

sudo gem install searchlogic

For rails, as a gem (recommended)

  # config/environment.rb
  config.gem "searchlogic"

Or as a plugin (for older versions of rails)

  script/plugin install git://github.com/binarylogic/searchlogic.git

Provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering a number of objects in a list.

The class that has this specified needs to have a position column defined as an integer on the mapped database table.

Allows you to forget about constantly rendering Textile in your application. Instead, you can rest easy knowing the Textile fields you want to display as HTML will always be displayed as HTML (unless you tell your code otherwise).

class Story < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_textiled :body_text, :description
end

AJAX CRUD functionality that’s smart enough to handle all your ActiveRecord associations.

• An AJAXified table interface for creating, updating, and deleting objects
• Automatic handling of ActiveRecord associations
• Sorting, Search and Pagination
• Graceful JavaScript degradation
• RESTful API support (XML/YAML/JSON) baked in
• Sexy CSS styling and theming support
• More extension points than you can shake a stick at