Search in database

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Hi,

Im am really new to RoR and web and I need some basic help:

I would like to have a text_field and a button in a view, from where I can type in a string, passing that string to the server side that iterates through my database to see if the string is within the database. The server side should then return if the string was found or not.

What I have problem with in this example is especially how the routing works between the client/server when just having a string variable that should be sent to the server without being a model. The code on the server side is kind of clear.

Thanks in advance

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Here is a snip of my view code

    <% form_for(:post, :url => search_path, :html => { :method => :get }) do |f| -%>       <%= text_field_tag :q, params[:q], "Enter search term(s)", :style => 'color: #999;' %>       <%= f.submit("Search")%>     <% end -%>

And here is the controller:

def search   @users = User.search params[:q] end

User.search is using Sphinx to search the database...