# app/controllers/general_controller.rb: # For pages like front page, general search, that aren't specific to a # particular model. # # Copyright (c) 2008 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved. # Email: francis@mysociety.org; WWW: http://www.mysociety.org/ # # $Id: general_controller.rb,v 1.57 2009-10-03 10:23:43 francis Exp $ require 'xmlsimple' require 'open-uri' class GeneralController < ApplicationController # New, improved front page! def frontpage # This is too slow #@popular_bodies = PublicBody.find(:all, :select => "*, (select count(*) from info_requests where info_requests.public_body_id = public_bodies.id) as c", :order => "c desc", :limit => 32) # Just hardcode some popular authorities for now # ('tgq', 'atbra' is for debugging on Francis's development environment) @popular_bodies = PublicBody.find(:all, :conditions => ["url_name in ( 'bbc', 'dwp', 'dh', 'snh', 'royal_mail_group', 'mod', 'kent_county_council', 'wirral_borough_council' /* , 'tgq', 'atbra' */ )"]).sort_by { |pb| pb.url_name }.reverse # just an order that looks better # Get some successful requests # begin query = 'variety:response (status:successful OR status:partially_successful)' # query = 'variety:response' # XXX debug sortby = "described" @xapian_object = perform_search([InfoRequestEvent], query, sortby, 'request_title_collapse', 8) @successful_request_events = @xapian_object.results.map { |r| r[:model] } @successful_request_events = @successful_request_events.sort_by { |e| e.described_at }.reverse rescue @successful_request_events = [] end cache_in_squid end # Display WhatDoTheyKnow category from mySociety blog def blog feed_url = 'http://www.mysociety.org/category/projects/whatdotheyknow/feed/' all_url = 'http://www.mysociety.org/category/projects/whatdotheyknow/' @output = '' content = open(feed_url).read @data = XmlSimple.xml_in(content) @channel = @data['channel'][0] @items = @channel['item'] @feed_autodetect = [ { :url => @channel['link'][0]['href'], :title => "WhatDoTheyKnow blog"} ] end # Just does a redirect from ?query= search to /query def search_redirect @query = params[:query] @sortby = params[:sortby] @bodies = params[:bodies] if @query.nil? || @query.empty? @query = nil @page = 1 render :action => "search" else if (@bodies == '1') && (@sortby.nil? || @sortby.empty?) @postfix = 'bodies' else @postfix = @sortby end redirect_to search_url(@query, @postfix) end end # Actual search def search # XXX Why is this so complicated with arrays and stuff? Look at the route # in config/routes.rb for comments. combined = params[:combined] @sortby = nil @bodies = false # searching from front page, largely for a public authority # XXX currently /described isn't linked to anywhere, just used in RSS and for /list/successful # This is because it's confusingly different from /newest - but still useful for power users. if combined.size > 1 && (['newest', 'described', 'bodies', 'relevant'].include?(combined[-1])) @postfix = combined[-1] combined = combined[0..-2] if @postfix == 'bodies' @bodies = true else @sortby = @postfix end end @query = combined.join("/") @inputted_sortby = @sortby if @sortby.nil? # Parse query, so can work out if it has prefix terms only - if so then it is a # structured query which should show newest first, rather than a free text search # where we want most relevant as default. begin dummy_query = ::ActsAsXapian::Search.new([InfoRequestEvent], @query, :limit => 1) rescue => e flash[:error] = "Your query was not quite right. " + CGI.escapeHTML(e.to_str) redirect_to search_url("") return end if dummy_query.has_normal_search_terms? @sortby = 'relevant' else @sortby = 'newest' end end # Query each type separately for separate display (XXX we are calling # perform_search multiple times and it clobbers per_page for each one, # so set as separate var) @xapian_requests = perform_search([InfoRequestEvent], @query, @sortby, 'request_collapse', 25) @requests_per_page = @per_page @xapian_bodies = perform_search([PublicBody], @query, @sortby, nil, 5) @bodies_per_page = @per_page @xapian_users = perform_search([User], @query, @sortby, nil, 5) @users_per_page = @per_page @this_page_hits = @xapian_requests.results.size + @xapian_bodies.results.size + @xapian_users.results.size @total_hits = @xapian_requests.matches_estimated + @xapian_bodies.matches_estimated + @xapian_users.matches_estimated # Spelling and highight words are same for all three queries @spelling_correction = @xapian_requests.spelling_correction @highlight_words = @xapian_requests.words_to_highlight @track_thing = TrackThing.create_track_for_search_query(@query) @feed_autodetect = [ { :url => do_track_url(@track_thing, 'feed'), :title => @track_thing.params[:title_in_rss] } ] end # Jump to a random request def random_request info_request = InfoRequest.random redirect_to request_url(info_request) end # For debugging def fai_test sleep 10 render :text => "awake\n" end end