Mongoid Search

Mongoid Search is a simple full text search implementation for Mongoid ORM. Modified to work with multiple stemming libraries: fast-stemmer and ruby-stemmer.

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid_search2', '~> 0.3.0.beta.2', :require => 'mongoid_search'
# Optional keyword stemming library:
# gem 'fast-stemmer' # only English
# gem 'ruby-stemmer', :require => 'lingua/stemmer' # English, Russian etc

Then:

bundle install

Examples

class Product
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Search
  field :brand
  field :name

  references_many :tags
  refereced_in    :category

  search_in :brand, :name, :tags => :name, :category => :name
end

class Tag
  include Mongoid::Document
  field :name

  referenced_in :product
end

class Category
  include Mongoid::Document
  field :name

  references_many :products
end

Now when you save a product, you get a _keywords field automatically:

p = Product.new :brand => "Apple", :name => "iPhone"
p.tags << Tag.new(:name => "Amazing")
p.tags << Tag.new(:name => "Awesome")
p.tags << Tag.new(:name => "Superb")
p.save
=> true
p._keywords

Now you can run search, which will look in the _keywords field and return all matching results:

Product.search("apple iphone").size
=> 1

Note that the search is case insensitive, and accept partial searching too:

Product.search("ipho").size
=> 1

Assuming you have a category with multiple products you can now use the following code to search for 'iphone' in products cheaper than $499

@category.products.where(:price.lt => 499).csearch('iphone').asc(:price)

In this case we have to use csearch, an alias for search, because since v2.0.0 Mongoid defines it's own Criteria.search method.

Different language

If you choose ruby-stemmer library you can search for keywords in different languages. To do that you need to define keyword_language instance method. It will be used for stemming the keywords of a document when it is saved.

require "lingua/stemmer"

class Product
  search_in :name, :stem_keywords => true

  # static language
  def keyword_language
    :ru
  end

  # you can also make a field instead for a variable language
  # field :keyword_language, :type => Boolean
end

Then you need to specify :language option when searching. It will be used to stem the search terms:

Product.search("медведи", :language => :ru) # will match медведь, медведей
Product.search(keywords,  :language => I18n.locale) # it can also be variable

Options

match: :any - match any occurrence :all - match all ocurrences Default is :any.

search_in :brand, :name, { :tags => :name }, { :match => :any }

Product.search("apple motorola").size
=> 1

search_in :brand, :name, { :tags => :name }, { :match => :all }

Product.search("apple motorola").size
=> 0

allow_empty_search: true - match any occurrence false - match all ocurrences Default is false.

search_in :brand, :name, { :tags => :name }, { :allow_empty_search => true }

Product.search("").size
=> 1

ignore_list: Pass in an ignore list location. Keywords in that list will be ignored.

search_in :brand, :name, { :tags => :name }, { :ignore_list => Rails.root.join("config", "ignorelist.yml") }

The list should look like:

ignorelist:
  a, an, to, from, as

You can include how many keywords you like.

stem_keywords: Whether to stem keywords or not.

TODO

• Strip html with sanitize (https://github.com/rgrove/sanitize)
• Rewrite and test relevant search
• Move all configurations to a configuration file. Maybe /config/mongoid_search.yml.