Question

I have a controller that has the following index action :

def index
  if request.post?
    flash[:notice] = "Searching.."
    redirect_to songs_path # where songs_path is this index page that i am on 
  end
end

in my application layout i have defined the flash section as such

<% if flash[:notice] %>
  <div id='notice'><%= flash[:notice] %></div>
<% end %>

and on my pages_path i’ve got

<% form_for :search do |f| %>
  <%= f.label :search_text %>
  <%= f.text_field :search_text %>
  <p>
    <%= f.submit "Search" %>
  </p>
<% end %>

The final result should be a search through a youtube api ( youtube-g) but now i would only wish to make that flash notification appear when i click on the “Search” button , and it doesn’t .. any ideas why ?

Answer 1

index action ordinary is GET request. So, if in your routes.rb there is something like resources :searches then your code won’t work.

try this:

def create
  render :text => "Searching.."
end

because POST /searches will refer to create action