# Strange error: Could anybody please help?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 18, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-error-could-anybody-please-help/109763 "2007-07-18T19:39:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![arif](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@arif](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arif)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-error-could-anybody-please-help/109763/1 "2007-07-18T19:39:32Z")

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Hi,  
I have a RAILS model named ‘sac\_database’ with a column ‘databae\_name’.  
It works fine when I try to show the records found from my database, for  
example, this works fine in my view (list.rhtml):  
\<% @sac\_database.each do |c| %\>  
\<%= c.database\_name -%\>  
\<% end %\>

But, I need to add a text\_field for the column ‘databae\_name’ (in order  
to search), and I tried something like this in my view:  
\<%= start\_form\_tag :action =\> ‘search’ %\>  
\<%= text\_field “sac\_database”, “database\_name”, “size” =\> 20 %\>  
\<%= submit\_tag ‘Search’ %\>  
\<%= end\_form\_tag %\>

It gives me this error:  
undefined method `database\_name’ for #Array:0x4b95920

I have tried many possibilities, like  
\<%= text\_field params[:sac\_database], params[:database\_name],  
“size” =\> 20 %\>  
but none was successful.

Could anybody point to where the problem is with this simple text\_field  
tag?  
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  
Thanks,  
Arif