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POrails search form that works on all pages of application
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    copied!<p>I have a search form which appears on all pages because I want someone to be able to search and be redirected to search results regardless of where they are on the site. To achieve this i placed the form in a partial which i included in the application layout. It looks like this</p> <pre><code>&lt;form class="form-search center"&gt; &lt;%=form_tag search_url, method: :get do%&gt; &lt;%=text_field_tag :query, params[:query] ,{:class=&gt;"input-xxlarge search-query"}%&gt; &lt;button type="submit" class="btn"&gt;Search&lt;/button&gt; &lt;%end%&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>I have created a controller called SearchResults with an index action to display the results. The named route looks like this</p> <pre><code>match '/search', to: 'search_results#index' </code></pre> <p>The search works perfectly fine on the search page, but cannot work anywhere else.My index action looks like this</p> <pre><code>class SearchResultsController &lt; ApplicationController def index @restaurants = Restaurant.text_search(params[:query]).page(params[:page]).per_page(3) end end </code></pre> <p>I want to be able to redirect to this action whenever i carry out a search regardless of where i am in the application.The text_search method is defined in the restaurant model like so</p> <pre><code>def self.text_search(query) if query.present? where("restaurant_name ilike :q or description ilike :q", q: "%#{query}%") else scoped end </code></pre> <p>It doesn't work in that nothing happens when i search but if i go to the search page it returns the results.</p> <p>I have noticed something interesting. When I search from the home page for a term like eats. The url looks like this <code>localhost:3000/?utf8=✓&amp;query=eats</code> and when I search from the real search page which works perfectly it looks like this <code>localhost:3000/search?utf8=✓&amp;query=eats</code>. How can i get it point to the latter url regardless of where am searching from?</p>
 

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