How to use input from text_field via a button..?

Rails
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Hi,

This is most likely trivial but I cannot find it anywhere… I have a
text_field and a button. I would like to use the input in the
text_field as a value to compare against a column in a mySQL database
that’s not the id (call it ‘name’). How can I do this?

Thanks for any help.

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You would have to submit the form and do the comparison in the
controller. The value for the textfield should come in the params[]
hash.

wintermute wrote:

Hi,

This is most likely trivial but I cannot find it anywhere… I have a
text_field and a button. I would like to use the input in the
text_field as a value to compare against a column in a mySQL database
that’s not the id (call it ‘name’). How can I do this?

Thanks for any help.