Rails - May 2006 - Prompting user to enter value to feed Find

Hi,
While viewing part of a long list of records, the user may want to do a 
Find of a specific record (for example, find_by_name). The found record 
is then displayed using the list view. I''ve searched the wiki and 
couldn''t find a sample or information that will help directly in 
implementing this function. Any pointers?
Thanks!
gk

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Gene Kahn wrote:
> Hi,
> While viewing part of a long list of records, the user may want to do a 
> Find of a specific record (for example, find_by_name). The found record 
> is then displayed using the list view. I''ve searched the wiki and 
> couldn''t find a sample or information that will help directly in 
> implementing this function. Any pointers?
> Thanks!
> gk
>
>   
 Could you pass the name through the query string, and if that string is 
present just overwrite the value
in the list @ variable with a find(:all, :conditions => ["name = 
?",params[:name]])?

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mwastrod@uci.edu
949 395-7215

Hi,
While viewing part of a long list of records, the user may want to do a
Find of a specific record (for example, find_by_name). The found record
is then displayed using the list view. I''ve searched the wiki and
couldn''t find a sample or information that will help directly in
implementing this function. Any pointers?
Thanks!
gk

I have a pretty good tutorial for this right here.

http://www.recentrambles.com/pragmatic/view/59

Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com

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charlie bowman wrote:
> Hi,
> While viewing part of a long list of records, the user may want to do a
> Find of a specific record (for example, find_by_name). The found record
> is then displayed using the list view. I''ve searched the wiki and
> couldn''t find a sample or information that will help directly in
> implementing this function. Any pointers?
> Thanks!
> gk
> 
> I have a pretty good tutorial for this right here.
> 
> http://www.recentrambles.com/pragmatic/view/59
> 
> Charlie Bowman
> http://www.recentrambles.com
Awesome! Live search is what I''d like to use eventually, but for now
I''m
still taking baby steps. The site looks elegant.

thanks
gk

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Matthew Wastrodowski wrote:
Hi,
At this point the grid display is populated from a variable that is set 
in the controller as follows, and hence, there is no explicit query 
string.

  def list
    @items = Item.find_all
  end

What I''m doing, a really simplistic thing, is, at the bottom of the
grid
display for a model, I add a FIND link as follows:

<%= link_to "FIND item",
:controller => "item",
:action => "list" %>

When the user clicks on the link, a prompt window should appear and 
allow the user to enter a value. It seems that I''d need a view to 
display the prompt window, collect the search value, and then call the 
list method of the relevant controller and pass the search value. So, 
I''d have to change this list method to something like:

  def list
    if @flag
      @items = Item.find_all
    else
      @items = Item.find_by_name("aValue")
    end
  end

Somewhere I need to redirect the action to display the list again. But 
the details I don''t have at this point.

Thanks for any help,
gk


> Gene Kahn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> While viewing part of a long list of records, the user may want to do a
>> Find of a specific record (for example, find_by_name). The found record
>> is then displayed using the list view. I''ve searched the wiki
and
>> couldn''t find a sample or information that will help directly
in
>> implementing this function. Any pointers?
>> Thanks!
>> gk
>>
>>   
>  Could you pass the name through the query string, and if that string is
> present just overwrite the value
> in the list @ variable with a find(:all, :conditions => ["name >
?",params[:name]])?
> 
> --
> Matthew Wastrodowski
> Web Developer
> http://blog.familopia.com
> 
> mwastrod@uci.edu
> 949 395-7215

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