Re: [Rails] Glossary module

Ruby on Rails Tuesday, March 1, 2011



On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Pale Horse <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
The application I'm currently working on has a Glossary model. The
Glossary table has columns for the term and its definition.

The application also has Pages which have content. The content needs to
highlight any words that match a term in the Glossary table.

There'll be a few ways to do this but I'd appreciate your advice on the
way you'd accomplish this.

Yes, there are a lot of ways to do this. My approach would be:
  1. Send the names of all the Glossary as json object when you load the page, bcoz you will be matching the contents of pages with names, i guess.
  2. You could send the names as a string like " name1 | name2 | name3 | ....| " or simply pass a hash.
  3. Now, when you display the contents of a page, use jQuery to do the matching on the names json with the contents in the http_response coming from server.
How you want to do the matching would determine, in which format you are sending the names json from server.

Advantages of this approach:
  1. You are not saving the matches in DB, although you can. But if you change your glossary, you would have to do it again and change the matches for each page's contents. You would have understood what I mean to convey here.
  2. Use javascript libraries when it comes to things like these, until and unless you want to save the changes(matches here) in DB.
There could be a better way of doing this, so lets wait and see what the experienced ones here say about it.


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