Rails Multi Attribute Sort / Filter

[Samuel Richardson]

I need a quick and dirty way of doing a multi filter / sort on ActiveRecord objects.

From the front end it will be driven by the Select2 plugin with the multiple attribute enabled (http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/).

It would be pretty trivial to write a handler but the project I'm working on is quite experimental and I just want to hack something in for now, so a gem would be ideal.

Samuel Richardson
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

[David Parry]

You should check out DataTables, in particular, these ruby gems:

jquery-datatables-rails
ajax-datatables-rails

I recently used them on a project to allow ajax sorting, pagination, filtering, searching and it worked brilliantly.

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[Sebastian Porto]

Samuel

We have been using this gem https://github.com/ernie/ransack for some simple searching and filtering in our app, might be what you are after

Sebastian

Samuel Richardson

8 January 2013 8:38 AM

[Samuel Richardson]

Perfect. Thank you.

Samuel Richardson
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

[Craig Read]

+1 for DataTables

The following railscasts episode demonstrates creating a class for handling server-side processing, which you'll want to do if you're returning large result sets:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/340-datatables

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[Rufus Post]

DataTables is hard to user when you can't load the whole table. Tis why I wrote this:

https://github.com/mynameisrufus/sorted