Search with Ruby on Rails - html

Question

I am currently learning Ruby on Rails, however, I have run into a slight issue, I am unable to create a text field from which to search. I so far have a working DB and web page (albeit an ugly one), however, I am having a problem with this simple function, here is my code so far:
<h1>Listing articles</h1>
<%= link_to 'New article', new_article_path %>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Text</th>
<th colspan="3"></th>
</tr>
<% #articles.each do |article| %>
<tr>
<td><%= article.title %></td>
<td><%= article.text %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', article_path(article) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_article_path(article) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', article_path(article),
method: :delete,
data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
<strong>Search Title:</strong>
text_field_tag(:id)
<%= #article = Article.find(params[:id]) %>
<% end %>
</table>
error
/Users/jake/Documents/internships/rails/search/app/views/articles/index.html.erb:31: syntax error, unexpected keyword_ensure, expecting end-of-input
just for the web page, any help would be strongly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Try looking through this code:
In your html:
<% form_tag projects_path, :method => 'get' do %>
<p>
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>
<%= submit_tag "Search", :name => nil %>
</p>
<% end %>
In your controller:
def index
#projects = Project.search(params[:search])
end
and in the model
def self.search(search)
if search
find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', "%#{search}%"])
else
find(:all)
end
end
Here is the link
Also as I'm doing in my project, you can create separate action in your index/welcome controller called search:
def search
end
Then configure route in your routes.rb like so(not sure exactly this will work)
get 'welcome/' => 'welcom#search', as: 'search'
And then in view create a form:
<%= form_tag search_path, method: 'get', remote: true, id: "garage-search" %>
<%= text_field_tag :search %>
<% end %>
This will send search request by AJAX to your search controller. There you can process it as needed.
Also try look here. Very clearly explained..