Rails - Feb 2006 - autocomplete input field name

Hi All,

I''m new to ruby on rails and I struggle with a problem in my first 
application. I searched the forum (and ofcourse google) but I think it 
is just an easy thing that nobody boughters to write down :)

I am building a kind of library application for (fysical) books and 
e-books and later I want to add other functions like knowledge 
management.

The problem: in the book show page I have a form to add a author with 
auto complete:

show.rhtml
...
  <form action="/book/addauthor" method="get">
  <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :author, :name %></p>
  <input name="bookid" value="<%= @book.id %>"
type="hidden">
...

book_controller.rb
class BookController < ApplicationController
	auto_complete_for :author, :name, :limit => 5

  def addauthor
  	@book = Book.find(params[:bookid])
  	@author = Author.find_by_name(params[:authorname])
  	@book.authors.push(@author)
 	redirect_to :controller => ''book'', :action =>
''show'', :id => @book
   end


When I manually enter the right url with variabels (is it english?) 
bookid and authorname it works, but when I use the form the name of the 
autocomplete field is author[name] and the url it produces is:

http://localhost:3000/book/addauthor?author%5Bname%5D=a4&bookid=1&Submit=Submit

So I get an error and I cannot say @author = 
Author.find_by_name(params[:author[name]])

All help is welcome,

With kind regards,

Alexander Ketelaar
alexander.ketelaar@gmail.com


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I already found it:

@author = Author.find_by_name(params[:author][:name])

Thanx anyway

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