[Rails] RE: How to highlight the search term in the search result

[Bharat Ahluwalia]

From: "Neeraj Kumar" <neeraj.jsr at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Rails] How to highlight the search term in the search result
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> In the 'basecamp' product from 37signals if I search for 
> 'ruby' the I get a
> bunch of results. In the search result page the search term 
> (ruby in this
> case) is highlighted.
> 
> I was wondering how to accomplish the same.
> 
> How to highlight the 'search term' in the search result? Is there any
> already existing utility that I could use?
> 
> Thanks.

Use the "highlight" command in the rhtml file 
Take a look at page #11 in the beta book at
http://media.pragprog.com/titles/rails/Chapter18.pdf
for an example. 

Bharat
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