Routing rails Simple Search to a listings page - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have implemented a simple rails search which is searching my DB and displaying the results just fine. However, I am not fully understanding how to route my search query to a new page.
I have used rails scaffolding to create this particular section of my site:
class DogSearchesController < ApplicationController
before_action :set_dog_search, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
# GET /dog_searches
# GET /dog_searches.json
def index
#dog_searches = DogSearch.where(["dog LIKE ? ","%#{params[:search]}%"])
end
# GET /dog_searches/1
# GET /dog_searches/1.json
def show
#dog_search = DogSearch.find(params[:city])
end
index.html.rb
<%= form_tag dog_searches_path, :method => 'get', :class => 'search-form' do %>
<i class="fa fa-map-marker"></i>
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search], :class => 'homesearch', :placeholder => 'Enter search term' %>
<%= my_button_to '<i class="fa fa-search"></i>', {}, :class => "fa fa-search" %>
<% end %>
I have created a page in dog_searches/listing and added this to my Routes file as get 'dog_searches/listing'
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Commonly, search results will go to the index page with params. If you ever want to show a list of dog_searches, filtered or paged, it's a common approach to use the index action and view for all of this.
But, that said, if you want to render the listing page, you may want to set the form to that page
# routes.rb
resources :dog_searches do
get :listing, :on => :collection
end
In the view - notice the url change
<%= form_tag listing_dog_searches_path, :method => 'get', :class => 'search-form' do %>
<i class="fa fa-map-marker"></i>
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search], :class => 'homesearch', :placeholder => 'Enter search term' %>
<%= my_button_to '<i class="fa fa-search"></i>', {}, :class => "fa fa-search" %>
<% end %>
Then in the controller, you'd have a very similar action to index.
def listing
#dog_searches = DogSearch.where(["dog LIKE ? ","%#{params[:search]}%"])
end
But again, can index handle all of this for you instead?

Answer 2

What is the directory where your form is, and which new page do you want to route your search query or result to?
By default, rails render the file with the same name as the controller action.
Therefore, if the controller action that is doing the search is the index action in DogSearchesController, then the view file is the dog_searches/index.html.erb
On the other hand, if you want the view to be dog_searches/listing.html.erb, then you may want to create a listing action in the DogSearchesController and move your search inside it as follow:
def listing
#dog_searches = DogSearch.where(["dog LIKE ? ","%#{params[:search]}%"])
end
and let your search form point to this action:
<%= form_tag listing_dog_searches_path, :method => 'get', :class => 'search-form' do %>
<i class="fa fa-map-marker"></i>
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search], :class => 'homesearch', :placeholder => 'Enter search term' %>
<%= my_button_to '<i class="fa fa-search"></i>', {}, :class => "fa fa-search" %>
<% end %>
Note here that I'm assuming that the path to the listing action is the listing_dog_searches_path.
Hope this throws some light into it?