I am trying to rewrite my website in Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2. Can some one help me convert my observe_field which is working under Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3. I would like to avoid using JQuery as over the last year everything I have tried in JQuery has failed, including this one. Perhaps due to my lack of knowledge. I would not like to install the legacy upgrade. What I have in my website is several pages(models) which use the same search text field. Each controller has an action "search" which renders a partial "_searchresults" on the page with the text field. The code which works well in Rails 2.3.5 along with one typical example search action from a controller and the "_searchresults" is shown below:- In the searches index.heml.erb:- ***************************************........... <p align="center"><font color="blue"><b>Just type the word or part of the word and wait two seconds</b></font></p><br/> <% if params[:area] != nil%> <% form_tag({:action => "foo"},{:id => "search"}) do %> <%= label_tag(:query, "Search for:") %> <%= text_field_tag("query", params[:query], :autocomplete => "off" , :onKeyPress=>"return disableEnterKey(event)") %> <% end %> <%= observe_field ''query'', :frequency => 2, :update => "search_results", :url => {:controller => params[:area], :action => "search",:area => params[:area]}, :method=>:get, :with => "query" %> <div id="search_results"> <p class="plantname2">(Search results will be listed here)</p> <%end%> </div> <%= set_focus_to_id ''query'' %> In one of the controller:- ******************************........... def search session[:query] = params[:query].strip if params[:query] if session[:query] and request.xhr? @plants_sn = Plant.find(:all, :conditions => ["scientificname LIKE ?", "%#{session[:query]}%"], :order => "commonname ASC") @plants_cm =Plant.find(:all, :conditions => ["commonname LIKE ?", "%#{session[:query]}%"], :order => "commonname ASC") @plants_desc =Plant.find(:all, :conditions => ["description LIKE ?", "%#{session[:query]}%"], :order => "commonname ASC") @plants = (@plants_cm + @plants_sn + @plants_desc).uniq render :partial => "shared/searchresults", :layout => false, :locals => {:searchresults => @plants} end end In Views/Shared/_searchresults:- **********************............ <% if searchresults.length == 0 %> <p>Sorry! No articles found...</p> <% elsif params[:query] == "" %> <p>You must enter a search term.</p> <% else %> <% if params[:area] == "plants" %> <table> <tr>**************.............elseif,elsfif etc,etc. ******************************************************************* At the moment I am trying with a submit_tag, but I am getting a missing template error. So I must solve this before I can continue with the observe field.:- <% end %> <p align="center"><font color="blue"><b>Just type the word or part of the word and wait two seconds</b></font></p><br/> <% if params[:area] != nil%> <% form_tag url_for({:controller => params[:area], :action => :search, :area => params[:area] }), :method => "get", :remote => true do %> <%= label_tag(:query, "Search for:") %> <%= text_field_tag("query", params[:query], :autocomplete => "off" , :onKeyPress=>"return disableEnterKey(event)") %> <%= submit_tag("Search", :name => nil) %> <% end %> -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.