Question

I have this search controller url:

http://localhost:3000/search/index?utf8=✓&search=Search_terms

how can trim this to:

http://localhost:3000/search=query

the search code:

#search-box
  #search-form
    = form_tag search_index_path, :method => 'get'  do
      = text_field_tag :search, params[:search], :autocomplete => "off"
      %button#search-button{:type => "submit"}
        %span Go!

Or is that possible??

Please advise.

Answer 1

This is not possible by Ruby (or Rails) itself. You need to

1. append a JavaScript callback to the submit event of the form
2. validate the form
3. replace the target URL of the form with the one composed by search= + input value.

Keep in mind that not all characters can be part of an URL. This is the reason why you should pass the search query as parameter, not as part of the URI.