- ActiveRecord 6.1 compatibility
- Add
#web_search
method to use Postgres' 11+websearch_to_tsquery
- Active Record 6.0 compatibility
- ActiveRecord 5.2 compatibility by wrapping string queries with
Arel.sql()
- Adds latest Ruby, Rails and Postgres-dependencies to Travis.
- Rewrite development migration code to support Rails 5.0-5.2.
- ActiveRecord 5.1 compatibility
- drop support for ActiveRecord older than 5.0 and Ruby version lower than 2.2.5
- ActiveRecord 5 compatibility above 5.0.0
- ActiveRecord 5 compatibility
- Fallback to zero similarity when trying to match null values
- Fix search term escaping
- Trigram installation migration only install extension if not installed yet.
- Update the README to illustrate how to change the similarity threshold.
- Remove deprecated dynamic search methods.
- Fix trigram installation migration reversed filename and content.
- Rewrite all tests using RSpec.
- We're ActiveRecord 4.2+ compatible until tests prove otherwise.
- Add generator for trigram installation migration.
- Expand gemspec to allow newest version of ActiveRecord.
- Avoid Deprecation warnings from ActiveRecord 4.0.0.rc2.
- Fix
method_missing
in ActiveRecord 4.0.0.rc2. - Remove unused
Textacular#normalize
method. - Add
OR
example to the README. - Fix tests for Ruby 2.0.0 & related improvements.
- Improve Rails integration.
- Fix dependency loading for textacular rake tasks.
- Fix ranking failures when rows had
NULL
column values. - Clean up Rakefile; should make developing the gem nicer.
- DEPRECATION: The dynamic search helpers will be removed at the next major release.
- All deprecations have been resolved. This breaks backwards compatibility.
- Rename gem to Textacular.
- 1 DEPRECATION
- The whole gem is being renamed and will no longer be maintained as Texticle. The new name it Textacular.
- 1 new feature
- Expand gemspec to allow Rails 4.
- 1 bugfix
- Include
lib/textacular/version.rb
in the gemspec so the gem will load. Sorry!
- Include
- 1 DEPRECATION
search
aliases newadvanced_search
method (same functionality as before), but will aliasbasic_search
in 3.0! Should print warnings.
- 3 new features
- Generate full text search indexes from a rake task (sort of like in 1.x). Supply a specific model name.
- New search methods:
basic_search
,advanced_search
andfuzzy_search
. Basic allows special characters like &, and % in search terms. Fuzzy is based on Postgres's trigram matching extension pg_trgm. Advanced is the same functionality fromsearch
previously. - Rake task that installs pg_trgm now works on Postgres 9.1 and up.
- 2 dev improvements
- Test database configuration not automatically generated from a rake task and ignored by git.
- New interactive developer console (powered by pry).
- 1 new feature
- Allow searching through relations. Model.join(:relation).search(:relation => {:column => "query"}) works, and reduces the need for multi-model tables. Huge thanks to Ben Hamill for the pull request.
- Allow searching through all model columns irrespective of the column's type; we cast all columns to text in the search query. Performance may degrade when searching through anything but a string column.
- 2 bugfixes
- Fix exceptions when adding Textacular to a table-less model.
- Column names in a search query are now scoped to the current table.
- 1 dev improvement
- Running
rake
from the project root will setup the test environment by creating a test database and running the necessary migrations.rake
can also be used to run all the project tests.
- Running
- 1 bugfix
- Our #respond_to? overwritten method was causing failures when a model didn't have a table (e.g. if migrations hadn't been run yet). Not the case anymore.
- 1 new feature
- Can now define #searchable_language to specify the language used for the query. This changes what's considered a stop word on Postgres' side. 'english' is the default language.
- 1 bugfix
- We were only specifying a language in to_tsvector() and not in to_tsquery(), which could cause queries to fail if the default database language wasn't set to 'english'.
- 1 new feature
-
Searchable is now available to specify which columns you want searched:
require 'textacular/searchable' class Game extend Searchable(:title) end
This also allows Textacular use in Rails without having #search available to all models:
gem 'textacular', '~> 2.0.pre4', :require => 'textacular/searchable'
-
- 1 bugfix
- ActiveRecord::Base.extend(Textacular) doesn't break #method_missing and #respond_to? anymore
- 1 new feature
- #select calls now limit the columns that are searched
- 1 bugfix
- #search calls without an argument assume an empty string as a search term (it errored out previously)
- 1 bugfix
- #respond_to? wasn't overwritten correctly
- Complete refactoring of Textacular
- For users:
- Textacular should only be used for its simplicity; if you need to deeply configure your text search, please give
gem install pg_search
a try. #search
method is now included in all ActiveRecord models by default, and searches across a model's :string columns.#search_by_<column>
dynamic methods are now available.#search
can now be chained;Game.search_by_title("Street Fighter").search_by_system("PS3")
works.#search
now accepts a hash to specify columns to be searched, e.g.Game.search(:name => "Mario")
- No more access to
#rank
values for results (though they're still ordered by rank). - No way to give different weights to different columns in this release.
- Textacular should only be used for its simplicity; if you need to deeply configure your text search, please give
- For devs:
- We now have actual tests to run against; this will make accepting pull requests much more enjoyable.
- For users:
- 1 minor bugfix
- Multiple named indices are now supported.
- 2 major enhancements
- use Rails.root instead of RAILS_ROOT
- refactored tasks to ease maintainance and patchability
- 3 minor enhancements
- fix timestamp for migrationfile
- fixed deprecation warning for rails3 (dropping rails2-support)
- prevented warning about defined constant
- 1 major enhancement
- Added Rails 3 support.
- 1 bugfix
- Model names that end in double 's's (like Address) don't choke the rake tasks anymore.
- 1 bugfix
- Generated migration now uses UTC time rather than local time.
- 1 minor enhancement
-
Textical adds a rake task to generate FTS index migrations. Just run:
rake textical:migration
-
- 1 major enhancement
- Birthday!