Notes on "Enhanching the Search Box" - RailsConf 2011

searchbox.md

###Autocomplete

• the big lebowski
• Prefix search
• rails-3-jquery-autocomplete Gem
  • rails g autocomplete
  • javascript_include_tag "autocomplete-rails.js"
  • autocomplete :resource, :title #, :full => true
  • autocomplete_field_tag
  • Not really flexible over multiple models

Roll your own

• JSONP -- needed for cross site functionality (widgets)
• Investigate autocomplete with Redis

Optimizing

• Use a Metal Controller
• Disable logging for the related action
• https://github.com/greggersh/rails3_autocomplete_example

Autosuggest

• the big lebowski
• Edge N-grams
  • Solr supports
  • Does Sphinx?

In line content

• Try a Bing search for "weather 90210" and you get a mini-forecast in the search box