Any good Rails example/framework for sorting, filtering, pagination with Ajax

Question

Is there any open source (or example) code for Ruby on Rails which can filter, sort, and paginate a certain model? Also, it would be great if the results could come back via Ajax. A good example of what I'm looking for can be seen on this Trulia web page

http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/30000-1000000_price/10001_zip/

(Note that as filters are checked off, the results are updated without a page reload.)

These kinds of operations (filter, sort, paginate) are so common that someone must have written something for this. I could figure it out myself, but am hoping there is either example code or a gem that provides the functions I would need. And again, I'm hoping it can be done with Ajax using either jQuery or prototype.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should definitely checkout smart_listing gem (https://github.com/Sology/smart_listing).

It uses kaminari for pagination and apart from sorting & filtering, smart_listing supports also in-place editing.

Here's a demo.