Rails render not opening new page with searchkick - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to make a search kick results page. However when i click search the console states i've got the correct id but the results page isnt opening.
I have this for my controller
def search
#events = Newevent.search params[:search]
render 'events/results'
end
I also have this as my search form
<div class="input-group input-group-lg">
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search], class: "form-control", autocomplete: "off" %>
<div class="input-group-btn">
<%= submit_tag "Search", class: "btn btn-primary" %>
</div>
</div>
<% end %>
And this is inside the results html.erb
<% #events.each do |event| %>
<h1>Test</h1>
<%= event.eventname %>
<% end %>
Heres what the console states when i start the search
Started GET "/search_events?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=capital&commit=Search" for ::1 at 2015-11-21 15:18:33 +0000
Processing by NeweventsController#search as JS
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "search"=>"capital", "commit"=>"Search"}
User Load (0.5ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = $1 ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1 [["id", 2]]
Newevent Search (9.8ms) curl http://localhost:9200/newevents_development/_search?pretty -d '{"query":{"dis_max":{"queries":[{"match":{"_all":{"query":"capital","operator":"and","boost":10,"analyzer":"searchkick_search"}}},{"match":{"_all":{"query":"capital","operator":"and","boost":10,"analyzer":"searchkick_search2"}}},{"match":{"_all":{"query":"capital","operator":"and","boost":1,"analyzer":"searchkick_search","fuzziness":1,"prefix_length":0,"max_expansions":3,"fuzzy_transpositions":true}}},{"match":{"_all":{"query":"capital","operator":"and","boost":1,"analyzer":"searchkick_search2","fuzziness":1,"prefix_length":0,"max_expansions":3,"fuzzy_transpositions":true}}}]}},"size":100000,"from":0,"fields":[]}'
Newevent Load (0.5ms) SELECT "newevents".* FROM "newevents" WHERE "newevents"."id" = 20
Rendered events/results.html.erb within layouts/application (1.6ms)
Rendered layouts/_navigation.html.erb (0.1ms)
Rendered layouts/_messages.html.erb (0.1ms)
Rendered layouts/_footer.html.erb (0.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 93ms (Views: 79.5ms | Searchkick: 9.8ms | ActiveRecord: 1.0ms)

Answer 1

Base on your server's log, I think you setup your search form as a remote form (you will see you have remote: true in your form_for tag)
Processing by NeweventsController#search as JS
Do you see text: as JS in the above line. That's because you submit a remote form. That means when you submit your form, the form will call ajax to server wait for server to return a js code to run on client side.
To solve your problem, just remove remote: true in your form_for tag, and everything will be ok ;)