Rails - Oct 2007 - would this be a good(restfull) approach for livesearch?

Hi,
I want to implement a search feature with the rest principles in mind.
so i try to think in resources and i decided to just put in in the index
method.

this resource/method will be called form different places, for example a
main search page for organisations but also on a "person" form  in a
sort of dialog screen where i can link an organisation to a person. the
(live) search routine stays the same, but it needs to render a different
partial. this is how i want to make my controller,

def index
    if not request.raw_post==nil
      @phrase = request.raw_post.chop
      @organisations=<here comes my search stuff>
    else
      @organisations=[]
    end
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { render :partial => params[:partial]}
        format.xml  { render :xml=>@organisations.to_xml}
        format.rss  { render :xml=>@organisations.to_rss}
      end
    end
  end

as you can see, i want to provide the partial to use through the url, so
this would be something like: /organisations/index?partial=multicolumn
or /organisations/index?partial=singlecolumn


i think it will work, but would this be considered restfull?
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