Question

please don’t shout… I’m trying to run a search query to find the Firstname in the database, basically trying to find a specific user then show that user.

What works in the console is Client.where but I can’t seem to get this to work in the controller.

irb(main):001:0>client = Client.where("name = 'Dusty'")
Client Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `clients`.* FROM `clients` WHERE (name = 'Dusty')

What I have is.

A View ‘index.html.erb’:

<%= form_for :find_it do |n| %>
   Name: <%= n.text_field :text, :cols => "30", :rows => "1" %></br>
<%= n.submit "Find" %>

And a Controller Method in clients_controller.rb:

def find_it
  @post = Clients.all
  @post = Client.where("name = ", params[:find_it])
  @post = Client.find(params[:id])
end

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Your syntax is a bit off. Use hash-style conditions:

def find_it
  @post = Client.where(:name => params[:find_it])
  # @post = Client.find(params[:id]) # why is this line here? It overwrites previous results
end