Question

I’m using the generic search form, and my url after the search looks like

http://localhost:3000/search?commit=Search&page=2&query=feature&utf8=%E2%9C%93

The search works fine, but I would like to remove the default “utf8=✓” and “commit=Search” parameters from the URL, I’m also using will_paginate and I would like the &page=2 to be after the query parameter leaving it like this:

http://localhost:3000/search?query=feature&page=2

My code:

#posts_controller.rb
def search 
    query = '%'+params[:query]+'%'        
    @posts = Post.find(:all, :conditions => ["content LIKE ? or title LIKE ?", query, query]).paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 5)
end

and

#html form
<%= form_tag(search_path, :method => 'get') do %>
    <%= text_field_tag "query" %>
    <%= submit_tag "Search" %>
<% end %>

and

#routes.rb
match '/search', :to => 'posts#search'

Thanks.

Answer 1

You cant just remove it from url as far as YOU send it.

To clean up will_paginate try this

<%= will_paginate @whatever, params => params.merge({:commit => nil, :utf8 => nil}) %>