Category: Searching and Queries

• Params Scope

  This plugin defines ActiveRecord::Base.params_scope().

• PopCrit

  The PopCrit plugin provides an easy method to dynamically create a conditions array for use in Rails find methods.

• query cache

  A backport of Rails 2.0 query cache to work with Rails 1.2

• RailsWhere

  Flexible condition builder. Supports sanitization.

• Random Finders

  Allows quick and easy fetching of random records, or records in random order.

  Simply pass the :random to the order in any finder method.

• rDigg

  Digg API wrapper in a Rails Plugin Form.

• rQoute

  Real time stock quoting plugin. Works with Yahoo Finance.

• Rquerypad

  Simplify query options with association automation and improve inner join for activerecord of rails

• scan_fields

  Alleviate's the need for long and ugly ActiveRecord::find search conditions by automatically searching all columns of a model.

• scoped_search

  Easily search you ActiveRecord models with a simple query language using a named scope.

• Searchable

  Module for search-enabling models using Ferret (future: multiple backends)

• Searchlogic

  Object based ActiveRecord searching, paginating, ordering, and more!

• Simply Searchable

  Ruby on Rails plugin to simplify searching your model

• Sitemap

  A google sitemap plugin for rails websites. It generates dynamic sitemaps based on your models and named routes. It has a full mvc stack that you can configure.

• SitemapGenerator

  This plugin enables 'enterprise-class' Google Sitemaps to be easily generated for a Rails site as a rake task, using a simple 'Rails Routes'-like DSL. It allows you to take care of familiar Sitemap issues like: Gzip of Sitemap files, variable priority links, paging/sorting links (e.g. my_list?page=3), SSL host links (e.g. https:), Rails apps which are installed on a sub-path (e.g. example.com/blog_app/) and hidden AJAX routes. It includes a Sitemap Index file so it supports more than the standard 50,000 individual urls (up to a maximum of 2.5 billion), and pings all major search engines on completion (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, SitemapWriter).

• Slice and Dice

  Allows construction of where clauses using a hash passed in as the :conditions option.

• sortable column headers

  I wanted the ability to sort my tabular data using column header links.

• soundex_find

  A drop-in replacement ActiveRecord finder for auto-complete that returns phonetically similar
  results, such as 'Jeffery', 'Jefry', and 'Geoffry'. Use with any autocompleter
  or search form when phonetic matches or misspellings should be included.

• Squirrel

  Gives ActiveRecord::Base#find a more Ruby-like syntax.

• Sunspot::Rails

  Powerful, expressive Solr search and indexing in your Rails application.