rendering a result from a different controller

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Hi,

I am a bit new at rails, so I'm not sure how to approach this:

I have a view with a search box that calls a controller/model outside of the view. So the view I am working with is called 'groups' and I make a search to people, in another controller. I'd like the result of the search to get sent back to my view under groups.

Here's what I have in the view:

show.erb: <% form_tag ({ :controller=> 'people', :action=> 'index'}, :method=> 'get') do %>

<table> <tr>   <td><label for="search"><font size="1"><b>Name:</b></font></label></

  <td><%= text_field_tag :search_name, params[:search_name]%>       <%= submit_tag "Search", :name=> nil %></td> </tr> </table>

<%end %>

So instead of the result rendering in index under 'people', I'd like to get the array back and render a list of people in groups. I tried working with partials, but the issue is I need to get the array back into this view, so I can pass it to a partial.

My controller code in people looks like this (I put the logic in the model)

def people_search     @people_tree_searches = PeopleTreeV.search(params[:search_name])   end end

any pointers are appreciated

thanks

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Hi

     You can look at :collection This is likein your routes.rb you can add

map.resources :people, :collection => {:search => :any}

    I am assuming map.resources :people is already there Now you can have a method search in people controller and the corresponding view may/maynot in view/people

Sijo

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thanks, I will give this a try. Just out of curiosity, will I be able to add functionality to the partial?