Whatever the user passes you gonna find it in the params hash so in your case:
@videos = $client.videos_by(:tags => params[:search]) Read this: Action controller overview<http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html> On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 5:59:19 PM UTC+2, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > I've been able to set things up to display a result of queries using > youtube_it gem my current code for fetching that data is > > def index > $client = YouTubeIt::Client.new(:dev_key => > "AI39si6i1NPgrU35e6xxRgvtGclAdH9pHnwefuUbHKZmKJutqDNvTZwY3PawefEY9rarYzmpN__UuMH19bAny0-retoMa8IsNILlDA") > > > @videos = $client.videos_by(:tags => ['funnyvideo']) > end > > > The thing is that I want to allow the user to input what they want to > search instead of me putting in funny video, I want a search bar that > allows users to type in their tags. > > > My current search bar looks something like this > <% form_tag videos_path, :method 'get' do %> > <%= text_field_tag :search %> > <%= submit_tag "search" %> > <% end %> > > > How can I pass in whatever the user type into the search bar to fetch > the youtube tags? > > > Thanks > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/78370e48-54ec-41a7-97e0-9a3267508f1a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
