ransack VS DataTables

You might be looking for something like Ransack - https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack

I use ransack for this and find it very powerful and flexible without the need to rely on complex JS.

For especially complicated cases, you can consider learning how to create custom predicates and Ransackers - extensions that convert parameters directly into Arel (internal library ActiveRecord, used to build SQL queries).

You can use gems like Ransack to build search forms much faster, but for the purpose of learning and performance we will be building this feature ourselves. Throughout the process, you will also learn how to customize Rails default pluralization. By the end, we will be able to search for Pokemon by name, type, and region.

I've done quite a bit of scouting for a solution, and it looks like many people gravitate around django-tables2, https://www.datatables.net/, https://bootstrap-table.com/, and a few others. The latter two are JS/HTML frameworks that can accept either Django templated HTML (of a table) or JSON, and they seem to prefer JSON to give you the most access to features.

If you’re only trying to not show 2000 results to the user at once, you could send them all and then use front-end techniques to paginate (a JS table library, for instance).

Don't know the plugin, but it looks like just a WordPress wrapper around the https://www.datatables.net/ datatable plugin. That plugin is very powerful and popular, there are many plugins for it too, pretty sure you can easily find a front-end developer to make the search more powerful.

I'm using datatables for displaying server-side data in tables.

I am using DataTables to create a table that is able to dynamically filter context. I am following the basic example, here.

I am trying to work with jQuery's Datatable JS for my project from this link.

I am using the jQuery DataTables plugin to sort the table fields. My question is: how do I disable sorting for a particular column? I have tried with the following code, but it did not work:

Great, currently I am using the Datatables from https://www.datatables.net, have a hard time with column fiiltering plugin (yadcf). Keep on!

The design called for a grid of 12 cards that could be paginated, searched, and selected. For instance if we have 32 cards, on multiple pages, we needed to be able to select all the cards, and on submit, persist 32 cards to the need controller action. After reviewing the specification, we decided to use DataTables, which we have already used throughout this Rails 5 application.