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Finding tags
Now that you can add and remove tags, what is there left to do? Find them! By implementing
a way to find tickets with a given tag, you make it easier for users to see only
the tickets they want to see. As an added bonus, you’ll also implement a way for the
users to find tickets for a given state, perhaps even at the same time as finding a tag.
When you’re done with this next feature, you’ll add some more functionality that
will let users go to tickets for a tag by clicking the tag name inside the ticket show
page.
11.5 Finding tags
At the beginning of this chapter, we planned on covering searching for tickets using a
query such as tag:iteration_1 state: open. This magical method would return all
the tickets in association with the iteration_1 tag that were marked as open. This
helps users scope down the list of tickets that appear on a project page to be able to
better focus on them.
There’s a gem developed specifically for this purpose called Searcher 4 that you can
use. This provides you with a search method on specific classes, which accepts a query
like the one mentioned and returns the records that match it.
11.5.1 Testing search
As usual, you should (and will) test that searching for tickets with a given tag works,
which you can do by writing a new feature called features/searching.feature and filling
it with the content from the following listing.
Listing 11.4 features/searching.feature
Feature: Searching
In order to find specific tickets
As a user
I want to enter a search query and get results
Background:
Given there are the following users:
| email | password |
| user@ticketee.com | password |
And I am signed in as them
And there is a project called "Ticketee"
And "user@ticketee.com" can view the "Ticketee" project
And "user@ticketee.com" can tag the "Ticketee" project
And "user@ticketee.com" has created a ticket for this project:
| title | description | tags |
| Tag! | Hey! You're it! | iteration_1 |
And "user@ticketee.com" has created a ticket for this project:
| title | description | tags |
| Tagged! | Hey! I'm it now! | iteration_2 |
Given I am on the homepage
4 This gem is good for a lo-fi solution but shouldn’t be used in a high search-volume environment. For that,
look into full text search support for your favorite database system.
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