Class: AutoComplete

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
app/lib/auto_complete.rb

Overview

this class runs a simple like query against the database in order to generate autocomplete (typeahead) items for the frontend. there is questionable scalability of this class, so it's suggested to either debounce or throttle client requests.

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Class Method Summary (collapse)

Class Method Details

+ (Object) find_institutions(institution) 



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# File 'app/lib/auto_complete.rb', line 17

def self.find_institutions(institution)
  @institution = "%#{institution}%".downcase
  @response = Institution.where("name LIKE ?", @institution)
  return {'institutions' => @response}
end

+ (Object) find_names(name) 



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# File 'app/lib/auto_complete.rb', line 8

def self.find_names(name)
  @name = "%#{name}%".downcase
  @response = Person.where("name LIKE ?", @name)
                    .where('approved' => true)
                    .includes(:institution)
  @institutions = Set.new
  return @response
end