Working With Rails

Hi,

I’m using mislav’s excellent will_paginate. I’m trying to achieve a
search box and have the results paginated using ajax.

I’ve implemented the guidelines on http://weblog.redlinesoftware.com/2008/1/30/willpaginate-and-remote-links

but I’m having a wee bit of bother, since I’m not too sure how to submit the search via ajax, and my pagination link updates the whole page layout and all in the container div. Which I think is something to do with not having a route for the search action (search?page=2)

Any help welcome.

Controller
   def index
     sort_init 'company_registered_number'
     sort_update
#     @companies = Company.paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 15,:conditions => ['id != 0'], :order => 'company_registered_number ASC')

    respond_to do |format|
     format.html # index.html.erb
     format.xml { render :xml => @companies}
    end
   end

def search
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html { render :partial => 'contents', :layout => false }
  end
end

container partial

<div id="container">

<% for company in @companies %>

  <tr>
    <td class="companyno"><%=h company.company_registered_number %></td>
    <td class="companyname"><%= link_to company.company_name, :action => "show", :id => company.id %></td>
    <td class="companycity"><%=h company.city %></td>
    <td class="companycountry"><%=h company.country.country %></td>
    <% if current_user.role.role_description.downcase == 'administrator' %>
        <td><%= link_to 'Show', [:admin,company] %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_admin_company_path(company) %></td>
        <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', [:admin,company], :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %></td>
    <% else %>
        <td><%= link_to 'Show', [company] %></td>
    <% end %>
  </tr>
<% end %>

<%= will_paginate @collection, :renderer => 'RemoteLinkRenderer', :params => {:action => 'search', :search_terms => params[:search]}, :remote => {:update => 'container'} %>
</div>

index.html.erb

<h1>Listing companies</h1>

<fieldset><legend>Filter</legend>
<% form_tag request.path, :method => 'get' do %>
  <% content_tag :label do %>
    Search term:
    <%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>
  <% end %>

</fieldset>
<table>
  <tr>
      <%= sort_header_tag('company_registered_number',:text => 'Reg Number',:title => 'Sort by Company Number',:class => 'width20 listingheading') %>
      <%= sort_header_tag('company_name', :text => 'Name',:class => 'width30 listingheading') %>
      <%= sort_header_tag('City',:class => 'width20 listingheading') %>
      <%= sort_header_tag('country_id',:text => 'Country',:class => 'width20 listingheading') %>

  </tr>

<% if @companies.size != 0 %>
          <%= render :partial => 'contents' %>
<% else %>
    <p class="norecordsindb">There are no companies in the database to display</p>
<% end %>
<% end %>
</table>