Scott Motte

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Use acts_as_ferret

• Here?s a good tutorial
• Another one
• and how to paginate the results with will_paginate
• actually this is a little more improved

I had serious trouble with adding conditions to acts_as_ferret in order to query only for a certain user_id. You have to do the following with the little {}

            @records = Record.find_by_contents params[:search], {}, {:conditions => ["user_id = ?", current_user]}

And to run it on a production server - go here