I am converting a Rails app from using acts_as_solr to sunspot.
The app uses the field search capability in solr that was exposed in acts_as_solr. You could give it a query string like this:
title:"The thing to search"
and it would search for that string in the title field.
In converting to sunspot I am parsing out field specific portions of the query string and I need to dynamically generate the search block. Something like this:
Sunspot.search(table_clazz) do keywords(first_string, :fields => :title) keywords(second_string, :fields => :description) ... paginate(:page => page, :per_page => per_page) end
This is complicated by also needing to do duration (seconds, integer) ranges and negation if the query requires it.
On the current system users can search for something in the title, excluding records with something else in another field and scoping by duration.
In a nutshell, how do I generate these blocks dynamically?