Hi there,
I'm going through this tutorial on Thinking Sphinx:
I'm really new to searches in rails; how do I get the search results to display on a separate search result page?
I have a search form that appears on every page (in my application.html.erb template) that looks like this:
<% form_for :recipes, :url => {:controller => "pages", :action => "searchresults"} do |f| %> <%= f.text_field :search %> <%= submit_tag "Search" %> <% end %>
This is a recipe search, but it doesn't even work because :search isn't a field in the recipes table. I just want to grab a params[:search] that I can use in my controller.
Here's what my pages_controller.rb looks like:
def searchresults @recipes = Recipe.search params[:search], :page => params[:page], :per_page => 10, :field_weights => {:title => 20}, :match_mode => :boolean end
I have no problem with this code; I have a searchresults.html.erb that
matches up just fine. But params[:search] == nil, so that's no good. 
How should I construct my form?
Thanks!
