textacular
Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular will extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun! (by textacular)
ransack
Object-based searching. (by activerecord-hackery)
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| textacular | ransack | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 7 | |
| 936 | 5,585 | |
| 0.1% | 0.5% | |
| 3.9 | 7.0 | |
| 6 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of textacular.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
ransack
Posts with mentions or reviews of ransack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.
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ransack VS Searchkick - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Aug 2021
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API - convention for filter that can have an occurrence of the value passed?
You might be looking for something like Ransack - https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack
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Airtable-like table filtering
I use ransack for this and find it very powerful and flexible without the need to rely on complex JS.
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An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
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).
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Building an Advanced Search Form in Rails 6
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing textacular and ransack you can also consider the following projects:
pg_search - pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search
SearchCop - Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord
Elasticsearch Rails - Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails
elastics - Simple ElasticSearch client for ruby with AR integration
Searchkick - Intelligent search made easy
Tire
Sunspot - Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch
Rroonga - The Ruby bindings of Groonga.
has_scope - Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources