On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Brentwood R. wrote:
> I may be going about this the wrong way. Any advice would be great.
You are possibly confused on more than 1 issue, but there's not enough info in
your message to be sure or to let anyone provide a really complete answer. (In
particular, do you expect the user to enter the value and then be able to
perform the search all in the page, or is the user submitting a form back to
the server and a new page being rendered?)
That said:
1) The ruby code in the rails controller runs just before render, and affects
the page that is sent to the browser. So the controller might change the
javascript that's in the page as it's sent, but no ruby code will be run and no
ruby variables will be evaluated after it's sent.
2) highlight('@found'); will pass the literal string @found to the highlight
function, if you want to substitute a ruby variable value in there, you need
highlight('<%= @found %>')--assuming of course that @found has its value while
the page is being rendered
3) What do you mean by "does not assign the variable"? What ruby will get in
the post is a hash of params, and it's up to you how you use that. In the most
common use, you'd use a form with a model object, but here you're just trying
to get 1 value, so use of form_tag is probably appropriate, and in that case
you want text_field_tag, not text_field.
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Scott Ribe
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