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Searchkick, search by parents names

I'm using searchkick gem, which provides to my very powerful searching.

When I type this for my Items:

Item.search 'computer'

It will return me Item models which has this string in its attributes.

If I have Item objects with names SuperCalc1, ExtraTurboSmartand WoodenPC and Item model is belongs to Category model and category of these items are Computers, how can I search these items by name of its parent model?

Solution

  • You're either going to have to index the Category model and search by that, or add the model to Item's index:

    def search_data
  {
    name: name,
    category: category.name
  }
end

    and then reindex.