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I am having a lot of trouble passing a JavaScript variable to my Rails controller. I know I have to do some kind of AJAX request, but everything I have tried (including this) have helped me understand what I am trying to do, but have not quite solved my problem. So, I figured I'd spill everything I was trying to do and get the expert community at StackOverflow to help.

I am trying to implement a search in my Rails app using SmartTextBox. The jQuery plugin can return the items in the form as a string, separated by a character of your choice (in my case, I am using '|'). I am trying to pass this string to my Rails controller so that it can parse the information and search our database. I have the Search function down, I just need to be able to pass it the string from the SmartTextBox!

I have tried using <%link_to , $.get(), and several other methods without much luck. Does anyone have any experience with something like this, or have a suggestion on how to solve my problem? Thanks a lot!

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  • These 2 blog posts will teach you everything you need to know alfajango.com/blog/rails-3-remote-links-and-forms Commented Jul 12, 2011 at 2:52
  • I am sort of confused...I don't have a rails forms right now, but I am trying to pass the JavaScript variable to the controller...I've looked at this post several times and can't figure it out :( Commented Jul 19, 2011 at 0:22
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