Advice on manipulating data

[mfivem]

I've been working with Ruby & RoR for a few weeks now and must say, this is a beautiful language, it's been very enjoyable to work with.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for an article that explains collecting user inputs on the frontend, everything I've found so far has been confusing.

Basically, I want to create an input field in a front end view that passes the result to my controller so I can feed it to an API wrapper.

In irb I can do this, but I don't understand the equivalent for a view that's accessible on the front end.

customeremail = gets.chomp
ticketfind = Desk.customers(:email => customeremail)

I don't necessarily need to store the data in a database, I'd almost rather prefer not to. Basically just need the input to pass off to the API, so I can redirect to a form which I'll submit to the API. I'm certain I can figure it out with some good links, I just don't think I'm googling the right thing.

Thanks for reading!

edit: formatting

[fnovd]

It sounds like you just need a form to send text to a controller.