# Search error on this site?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-error-on-this-site/87043>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 27, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-error-on-this-site/87043 "2007-02-27T20:12:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rubysharma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@rubysharma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubysharma)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-error-on-this-site/87043/1 "2007-02-27T20:12:37Z")

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Hi Admin,

I just started to search for “flash[:message]” in the forums on the left  
hand side. But it results in application error. It seems some error in  
handling RoR code by RoR forum code.

My intention was : any previous threads on flash object…

Thanks,  
sharma

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**Author:** ![rubysharma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@rubysharma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubysharma)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-error-on-this-site/87043/2 "2007-02-28T05:37:26Z")

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Why so?. No takers ?  
Sharma C. wrote:

> Hi Admin,
> 
> I just started to search for “flash[:message]” in the forums on the left  
> hand side. But it results in application error. It seems some error in  
> handling RoR code by RoR forum code.
> 
> My intention was : any previous threads on flash object…
> 
> Thanks,  
> sharma

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**Author:** ![rubysharma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@rubysharma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubysharma)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/search-error-on-this-site/87043/3 "2007-02-28T06:22:02Z")

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I have had trouble with the RoR search when using special characters  
such as : and . I’ve also had trouble when the only matches were recent  
postings (it sometimes retrieves nothing). Try rephrasing the search  
string without the [:] characters, maybe just as “flash message”.

Shauna