Episode 14 - Filtering Search Results

Now that we have multiple sources of search results, it would be nice if we could only look at results from Twitter or from Google Blog Search or only look at results for a certain brand.

To make this happen, we add a couple of drop-downs to the dashboard, allowing us to select the brand and the source we want to filter by.

Both filters are added in the same way:

1. write a scenario that gives us search results for more than one brand (or search);
2. add the drop-down to the view;
3. make the controller pass filter parameters on to the model’s finder method;
4. write specs to ask the model to only return results filtered by the specified options;
5. make the model specs pass.

Finally, we test our work in the browser and commit.