theodinproject VS ransack

One way to contribute to The Odin Project is by helping to improve their documentation. You can contribute to their curriculum repository by suggesting improvements, reporting errors, or adding new documentation. They also have a great Contributing Guide to help onboard new contributors.

If you want to get meta about it, The Odin Project's site is open source https://github.com/TheOdinProject/theodinproject. Once you get the basics down it's worth poking around their source code. There's a number of sound patterns being used and lots of examples on how to do things.

Yes, they’ve changed the layout and are still working on it too. https://github.com/TheOdinProject/theodinproject/issues/3133

It is completely free and open source. The course content and the main site are both available for anyone to view on Github.

We have a very similar system on The Odin Project for tracking user lesson completions if you would like to take a look: https://github.com/TheOdinProject/theodinproject

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.