thedanielhanke

# via http://jablan.radioni.ca/post/4982485974/parsing-search-query-in-ruby

def parse_query s
  s.scan(/((\S+)\:\s?)?([+-])?(("(.+?)")|(\S+))/).map{|match|
    Hash[
      [nil, :prefix, :plusminus, nil, nil, :phrase, :word].zip(match).select(&:all?)
    ]
  }
end