Question

I am trying to generate a search form on my home#index.

However, when I do <%= simple_form_for @search do |f| %> in the view of Home#index, I get this error:

NoMethodError at /

Message undefined method `model_name' for NilClass:Class

Even though, in my Home#index in my controller, I have:

  def index
    render :layout => 'home'
    @users = User.all
    @search = Search.new
  end

How do I get access to my search object from any view in my app? Btw, I have a Search model – if it wasn’t obvious from the call in my Home#index.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Answer 1

if this view is shared across all your pages, you may skip declaring an instance variable and just call Search.new right there on the form

<%= simple_form_for Search.new do |f| %>