Rails - Jun 2006 - search action/ in different groups

Hi all,
thanks in advance for those who''ll take the time to help out...
i have a list of users who are connected with a habtam relashinship to a 
set of groups (joint table of groups_users) and now am trying to 
implement a search operation that will go through all of the records of 
the users and output user results according to what group was chosen at 
the searchbar, and the text input(of the searchbar)

basicly, it would be something in the vicinity of

(( @groups = Group.find_all ))

view of users/index:

<form action=> ''index'' >
search:<input type=text name=searchbar>
<% for group in @groups %>
<input type=checkbox name=group#{group.id}>
 <% end %>
</form>

and then in my controller i put

def index
@users = User.find(:all)                       # annitiate the variable
@groups = Group.find(:all)
  if params[:searchbar] != nil    # no search
	 @user_pages, @users = paginate :users, :include => :groups, :order => 
''lastname'' ,   :per_page => 10
  else                       # search done
         @groups.each {|group|
         if params["group#{id}"] == "on"             
#checbox is
checked
         associated_group = Group.find(g.id)
         @users << associated_group
}
         @users
    end
  end
end


but every time i put in a search query i get this (now) annoying message 
:





undefined method `update'' for "dfasdf":String


even though i have no UPDATE method in the controller !
what is going on?

..thanks

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two small fixes...
1.
>          @users.groups << associated_group
2.
> 
> undefined method `update'' for "dfasdf":String
 (as the "dfasdf" is the text input in the search field)

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