glyph_filter

Easily filter content by a list of characters

Usage

app/controllers/users_controller.rb

class UserController < ActionController::Base
  def index
    @users=User.letter_filter(:name, params[:letter])
  end
end

app/views/users/index.html.haml

= glyph_filter
= render :partial => @users

Features

• No active record model class methods. Just call the scope.
• Works with haml and erb
• Easily create a different layout by simply overriding the view partials

Installation

# Bundler Gemfile
gem 'glyph_filter'

Configuration

# config/initializers/glyph_filter.rb
GlyphFilter.configure do |config|
# (optional) customize letters to filter by
# default is ("A".."Z").to_a
  config.letters = ("b".."y").to_a

# (optional) customize param_name to use a different query param
# default is :letter
  config.param_name = :glyph

# (optional) customize the string used to distinguish the 'left_over' content
# default is "?"
  config.left_over = "!"
end

# Change the all filter name using i18n
en:
  views:
    filter_section:
      all: ALL

Contributing

• Fork the project
• Fix the issue
• Add unit tests
• Submit pull request on github

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Socialcast, Inc. See LICENSE.txt for further details.