Advanced Filtering for your Rails 5 Application

Build a dynamic filter with JavaScript and Simple Form in minutes

Maria Schuessler
The Startup
5 min readAug 27, 2019

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The Basics

Let’s jump right into it. This tutorial will be using the simple_form, pg_search, and acts-as-taggablegems, as well as AJAX to build a lighting fast multi-table filter to query your Rails 5 app.

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Maria Schuessler
The Startup

Music Product @ TikTok | Former Full-Stack Dev | Editor of StirCrazy! Mag | London-based | skippingcustoms.com