Shared a preview of the search page for Ex Libris, a database of third-party content for Mörk Borg. The search was based entirely on Postgres' tsvector types, keeping support and maintenance quite simple for the one-person team.
The search had to handle the copious amount of purely stylistic diacritics the community used in their content, leading to some custom language definitions. I also wanted the results to highlight the matching words, so I rebuilt Rails' highlight method to support highlighting a transliterated version of the original text.
The search had to handle the copious amount of purely stylistic diacritics the community used in their content, leading to some custom language definitions. I also wanted the results to highlight the matching words, so I rebuilt Rails' highlight method to support highlighting a transliterated version of the original text.
