rails 4: creating custom search form with custom routes

Question

I think this should be an easy problem, but I just can't figure it out right now. Been coding all day, need another set of eyes.

Current URL is being displayed:

http://localhost:3000/q?utf8=✓&query%5Bquery%5D=testing

as opposed to

http://localhost:3000/q?query=testing

routes.rb

Rails.application.routes.draw do



  resources :biz do

    member do

      get 'photo'

    end

  end

  get '/q' => 'search#index', as: :search





  root 'welcome#index'



end

welcome/index.haml

= simple_form_for :query, url: search_path, method: "get" do |q|

  = q.input :query

I have a search_controller.rb

class SearchController < ApplicationController

  def index

    if params.has_key?(:query)

      @query = Model.q(params[:query])

    else

      redirect_to root_path

    end

  end

end

What should I need to fix or add?

Form from inspector

<form novalidate="novalidate" class="simple_form /q" action="/q" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="get">

  <input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓">        

  <div class="form-group string required query_query">

    <label class="string required control-label" for="query_query">

      <abbr title="required"></abbr> Query

    </label>

  <input class="string required form-control" type="text" name="query[query]" id="query_query">      

  </div>           

</form>

Answer 1

remove the /:query as your sending it as a query param not a path param. make it /q

Also form might have to be

= simple_form_for :search, url: search_path do |q|

The form will submit http://example.com/q?query=this not http://example.com/q/this/

URL issue,

The problem is the simple form is wrapping it in a model. So your params would be params[:query][:query] for the input. You can just you text_field_tag 'query' instead of q.input :query

rails 4: creating custom search form with custom routes

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