Rails - Jul 2006 - How to pass search parameter to ruby from index file

Hi
I have a search box in my html file 
http://www.bharathrentals.com/index.html
I want to pass the search string from this html file to the search 
controller. My rhtml file has the following to do the search and it 
works

<%= start_form_tag :controller => ''rents101'', :action
=> ''searchads'' %>
<input type="text" name="typed_search"
size="12">
  <%= submit_tag "Search" %><%= end_form_tag %>


I tried using the text field with name "typed_search" and post action
to
"/rents101/searchads" and it did not work

any ideas?
thanks for your help

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