Ruby on Rails filterrific gem simple filter

Question

I'm new to Ruby on Rails and currently trying to set up an easy search with filterrific. But all examples I can find are much more complicated then mine and I'm a bit confused:

I have a model where I store Bank Holidays. I want to filter the output so the user just sees one year, should default to current year.

Therefore I created a scope in my model:

  selected_year = Date.today.year
  scope :year, -> {
  where("YEAR(holiday_date) = #{selected_year}")
  }

All examples for filterrific have found exspect that a user wants to search matching different values in related databases.

Any hint on how to filter just simple one value?

Thanks Simon

Answer 1

It looks like you want to allow the scope to receive an argument like so

scope :year, ->(year) { where("YEAR(holiday_date) = #{year}") }

Then you can call Model.year(1986) etc.