Rails: Display database query on HTML page, ActiveRecord -

i trying create search form rails app, user enters query , based off query, want them see list of links associated query (these links come 'links' table). created html form , has user enter query. use query

<%= form_tag links_path, :method => 'get' %>   <p>     <%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>     <%= submit_tag "search", :name => nil %>   </p> <% end %> 

in controller links table, have if statement checks user has entered , assigns link.where('title ?', '%{#params[:search]}%') @links. , converts array (.to_a)

here statement in index action:

def index   @links = link.all   if params[:search]     #@links = link.find(:all, :conditions => ['title ?', '%{#params[:search]}%'])     @links = link.where('title ?', '%{#params[:search]}%')     @links.to_a   end 

end

in index.html.erb display result. used <%= @links %> however, displays activerecord: #<link::activerecord_relation:0x0000000d5c69f0>

how convert query result activerecord array, able index it? thanks.

you need assigns @links this:

@links = @links.to_a 

by way, if want render link one-by-one using @links.each, not need convert @links array.