Sure, I can help you with that! Here's a step-by-step guide to building a blog website using Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL and Less CSS style sheet.

Step 1: Set up your Rails project To create a new Rails project, open your terminal and type:

rails new my-blog --database=postgresql

This will create a new Rails project with PostgreSQL as the default database.

Step 2: Generate the Author, Post, and Tag models

To generate the models for Author, Post, and Tag, open your terminal and type:

rails generate model Author name:string email:string
rails generate model Post title:string body:text author:references tag:references
rails generate model Tag name:string

This will create the necessary database tables for your blog.

Step 3: Migrate the database

To migrate the database, run the following command in your terminal:

rails db:migrate

This will create the necessary database tables for your blog.

Step 4: Create the controller

To create a controller for your blog, open your terminal and type:

rails generate controller Posts index show

This will generate a controller with the index and show actions for the Post model.

Step 5: Set up the routes

To set up the routes for your blog, open your config/routes.rb file and add the following code:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  resources :posts
end

This will create the necessary routes for your blog.

Step 6: Add the Less CSS style sheet

To add the Less CSS style sheet to your Rails project, you can use the less-rails gem. Add the following line to your Gemfile:

gem 'less-rails'

Then run bundle install in your terminal to install the gem.

Step 7: Create the views

To create the views for your blog, open the app/views/posts folder and create the index.html.erb and show.html.erb files. Here's an example of what the index.html.erb file might look like:

<h1>Posts</h1>
<ul>
  <% @posts.each do |post| %>
    <li>
      <%= link_to post.title, post %>
      <p>Author: <%= post.author.name %></p>
      <p>Tag: <%= post.tag.name %></p>
    </li>
  <% end %>
</ul>

This code will display a list of all the posts, along with the author and tag for each post.

Step 8: Implement the search functionality

To implement the search functionality for your blog, you can use the ransack gem. Add the following line to your Gemfile:

gem 'ransack'

Then run bundle install in your terminal to install the gem.

Next, open your app/controllers/posts_controller.rb file and add the following code:


def index
  @q = Post.ransack(params[:q])
  @posts = @q.result.includes(:author, :tag)
end

This code sets up the search using the ransack gem and includes the author and tag associations for each post.

Step 9: Test your blog

To test your blog, run the following command in your terminal:

rails server

Then open your web browser and go to http://localhost:3000/posts. You should see a list of all the posts on your blog.

Congratulations! You've successfully created a blog website using Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL and Less CSS style sheet, and implemented search functionality for authors and tags.