Search for Products
Explore how to build custom search functionality in a Rails API for filtering products by title, price, and creation date. Learn to implement scopes, write tests, and ensure your search is efficient and case insensitive.
In this section, we will develop a strategy to strengthen the Products#index action by setting up a straightforward search mechanism that will allow any customer to filter the results.
We can use Ransack or PgSearch to build advanced search forms quickly. Since our goal is to learn though, we will build a search engine from scratch.
In the first step, we have to consider the criteria by which we will filter the attributes. The attributes which we will be using to filter the products are the following:
- Title
- Price
- Creation date
This may seem short and easy, but it can easily turn into a headache if we don’t plan ahead.
Filter by title
We will create a scope to find records that match a particular character pattern. Let’s call this ...