How to create a search bar for searching youtube videos using youtube_it

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I've been able to set things up to display a result of queries using youtube_it gem my current code for fetching that data is

def index $client = YouTubeIt::Client.new(:dev_key => "AI39si6i1NPgrU35e6xxRgvtGclAdH9pHnwefuUbHKZmKJutqDNvTZwY3PawefEY9rarYzmpN__UuMH19bAny0-retoMa8IsNILlDA") @videos = $client.videos_by(:tags => ['funnyvideo']) end

The thing is that I want to allow the user to input what they want to search instead of me putting in funny video, I want a search bar that allows users to type in their tags.

My current search bar looks something like this <% form_tag videos_path, :method 'get' do %> <%= text_field_tag :search %> <%= submit_tag "search" %> <% end %>

How can I pass in whatever the user type into the search bar to fetch the youtube tags?

Thanks

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Whatever the user passes you gonna find it in the params hash so in your case:

@videos = $client.videos_by(:tags => params[:search])

Read this: Action controller overview