Name Search¶ ↑

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Perform intelligent searches on people’s names.

Name search uses common nick names and first name/last name ordering to perform its searches.

For example, a search for ‘Andrew’ will return matches on ‘Andrew’ and ‘Andy’, while a search for ‘Andrew Smith’ will return matches on ‘Andy Smith’ and ‘Smith, Andrew’

Add the gem to the gemfile

gem 'name_search'

Generate the migration file

rails generate name_search:migration

Run the migration

rake db:migrate

A couple of rake tasks are included to pre-populate the database with common nick names.

Nick names from the 1990 census

rake name_search:add_census_nick_names

Other common nick names that are not part of the 1990 census

rake name_search:add_contributed_nick_names