Keep search text through session

Question

I'm working on Ruby on rails 2.3.2 and I'd like to keep the search text through postback so I can populate it after that.

Right now, the search page is called by a method called "search" on a controller. Once the search is done I render the file this way:

render :file => '/search/index', :layout => true, :use_full_path => true

I'd like to save the search on a session like this:

session[:text_to_search] = params[:txtSearch]

and then assign its value back to the textbox. The textbox is actually an html input type="text".

How can I do that?

Answer 1

note that since you are rendering the page as opposed to redirecting to a new page you can still access the params from in that page...

<%= text_field_tag :txtSearch, params[:txtSearch] %>

should work.

if you insist on using the session then:

<%= text_field_tag :txtSearch, session[:text_to_search] %>