Monthly Archives: June 2009

Zip Code Distance Searching in Ruby on Rails

By John | Published: June 23, 2009
In my last entry we looked at using scopes to dynamically build scopes for searching in your Ruby on Rails application.  In Tryst, we needed to let our uses search for other singles that were xxx miles from their location.  We require that new users enter their zip code, so that is what we had [...]
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Smart Searching Using Anonymous Scopes

By John | Published: June 21, 2009
I really like how Lovetastic’s search works.  Instead of a plethora of select boxes, users can simply use expressions to create searches.  We did something similar with Tryst’s searching.  One text field and you enter stuff like age ranges (30-45), things like smoke-yes or smoke-no, cities, zipcodes, etc. To make this whole thing more Rails like, [...]
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Yes, I started a dating site. I’m sorry.

By John | Published: June 14, 2009
Ok, so five years ago I never would have though that I’d have started a ‘Web 2.0′ dating site.  Hell, I didn’t think I’d be doing a lot of things, but here I am.   There is actually a small story how I got involved with (shamless self promotion) trystme.com.  Wanna hear it?  Good. Originally, I wanted [...]
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