I am very new to programming and would like to configure the following: I want to configure a page that displayes some graphs. These graphs pull its data from a sql table. What I would like to do is configure a view .erb to have a search field that will take text and inject it to part of a pre-configured sql query I have setup in a model. I will try to explain as best I can with code. Specifically I would like to set a view form that will take the text and pass that text value to the class vars i have defined (@@hostname, @@start_time and @@end_time). Once the VARs have user inputted values the code will run and result to display. I think I am going to be dealing with form_tags adn I have attemped this way but with no luck. I hope I explained this correctly as again I am a programming newbie. Thanks in advanced for any input. Model: class Health < ActiveRecord::Base def self.sql_select_graph(hostname, start_time, end_time) connection.execute("set @c = 0") find_by_sql("select *, @c FROM healths WHERE router_hostname ''#{hostname}'' AND created_at >= ''#{start_time}'' AND created_at <= ''#{ end_time}'' HAVING (@c:=@c+1)%12=0 ORDER BY id") end end Controller: class BandwidthController < ApplicationController @@hostname = ''cps-6-elem-2790-rtr-01'' @@start_time = ''2008-04-04 17:000:00'' @@end_time = ''2008-04-04 18:00:00'' ... ... def rtr_bandwidth g = Graph.new @f = Health.sql_select_graph(@@hostname, @@start_time, @@end_time) ... ... end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---