Ruby on Rails 4: Searchkick displaying all items instead of searched results - ruby-on-rails-4

Question

I have a Forum that has_many :forum_threads and has_many :forum_posts, through: :forum_threads. So basically my Forums have their own Forum Threads that are related to that particular Forum topic. I've added Searchkick to handle the search form. Searchkick is working for my Forum table but not for my ForumThread table.
There is no error, it just renders out all of the forum threads instead of rendering the query that the form was given.
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Here are my files:
forum.rb
class Forum < ActiveRecord::Base
accepts_nested_attributes_for :forum_threads
has_many :forum_posts, through: :forum_threads
accepts_nested_attributes_for :forum_posts
searchkick text_start: [:title], suggest: [:title], autocomplete: [:title]
def search_data
{
title: title
}
end
end
forums_controller.rb
class ForumsController < ApplicationController
def index
query = params[:q] || "*"
#forums = Forum.search(query, suggest: true, fields: [:title],
boost_where: {specific: :exact})
end
end
views/forums/index.html.erb
<%= form_tag forums_path, method: :get do |f| %>
<%= text_field_tag :q, nil, class: 'form-control', placeholder: 'Search...' %>
<% end %>
<% if #forums.suggestions.any? %>
<p class="lead">
<em>Did you mean: <strong><%= #forums.suggestions.first %></strong>?</em>
</p>
<% end %>
forum_thread.rb
class ForumThread < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user, counter_cache: true
belongs_to :forum, counter_cache: true, touch: true
has_many :forum_posts, dependent: :destroy
accepts_nested_attributes_for :forum_posts
validates :subject, presence: true
validates_associated :forum_posts
searchkick text_start: [:subject], suggest: [:subject], autocomplete: [:subject]
def search_data
{
subject: subject,
description: description
}
end
end
forum_threads_controller.rb
class ForumsController < ApplicationController
def index
query = params[:q].presence || "*"
#forum_threads = #forum.forum_threads.search(query, suggest: true, fields: [:subject, :description])
end
end
views/forum_threads/index.html.erb
<%= form_tag forum_forum_threads_path(<!-- something here? -->), method: :get do %>
<%= text_field_tag :q, nil, class: 'form-control', placeholder: 'Search...' %>
<% end %>
<% if #forum_threads.suggestions.any? %>
<p class="lead"><em>Did you mean: <%= #forum_threads.suggestions.first %>?</em></p>
<% end %>
routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :forums do
resources :forum_threads do
resources :forum_posts do
member do
put 'like', to: 'forum_posts#upvote'
put 'dislike', to: 'forum_posts#downvote'
end
end
end
end
end

Answer 1

I just made a variable for suggestions to use in the view.
forum_threads_controller.rb
def index
query = params[:q].presence || "*"
#forum_threads = ForumThread.search(query,
where: { forum_id: #forum.id },
fields: [:subject, :description],
boost_where: {specific: :exact}, suggest: true, highlight: true)
#forum_threads_suggestions = []
if #forum_threads.empty? && #forum_threads.suggestions.any?
#forum_threads_suggestions = ForumThread.search(#forum_threads.suggestions.first, fields: [:subject], suggest: true,
boost_where: {specific: :exact}, highlight: true)
end
end
index.html.erb
<%= form_tag forum_forum_threads_path, method: :get do %>
<%= text_field_tag :q, nil, class: 'form-control', placeholder: 'Search...' %>
<% end %>
<% if #forum_threads.suggestions.any? %>
<p class="lead">
<em>
Did you mean: <strong><%= #forum_threads.suggestions.first %></strong>?
</em>
</p>
<% end %>
</div>
<!-- END SEARCH FORM -->
<!-- SHOW RESULTS AND SUGGESTIONS -->
<p class="light-grey"><em>
<%= pluralize #forum_threads.results.size, 'match' if params[:q].present? %>
<%= pluralize #forum_threads.suggestions.size, 'suggestion' if #forum_threads.suggestions.any? %>
</em></p>
<!-- END RESULTS AND SUGGESTIONS -->
<!-- SHOW FORUM THREADS -->
<% (#forum_threads.presence || #forum_threads_suggestions).each do |forum_thread| %>
I wrote an or statement to either show all forum_threads or suggestions.
forum_thread.rb)
searchkick fields: [:subject], suggest: ['subject'], highlight: [:subject]
def search_data
{
forum_id: forum.id,
forum_thread: #forum_thread,
subject: subject
}
end
I did the same thing for the forum model. I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about doing this so if someone else has something then please feel free to contribute.