Ruby on Rails

Hi, I'm new here and started working with rails only a month ago.

I'm trying to develop a VideoGame Database that is supposed to contain
many many entries.

Here's my problem. Currently any new gameentry is listed in my
index-page like this

[code]

<% @games.each do |game| %>
<tr>
<td><%= game.title_german %></td>
<td><%= game.title_original %></td>
<td><%= game.release %></td>
<td><%= game.dlc %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', game %></td>
<!-- <td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_game_path(game) %></td> -->
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', game, confirm: 'Are you sure?', method:
:delete %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
[/code]

of course that doesn't make a lot of sense. No Shop or library (like
imdb) would have an accessible page listing the intire datatable. So I
want the index page only to display those games that were filtered by
the searchfield, which looks like this.

[code]

<%= form_tag games_path, :method => 'get' do %>
<p>
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>
<%= submit_tag "Search", :title_german => nil %>
</p>
<% end %>
[/code]

My Model and my controller are defined as follows:

[code]
class Game < ActiveRecord::Base

def self.search(search)
if search
find(:all, :conditions => ['title_german LIKE ?', "%#{search}%"])
else
find(:all)
end
end
end


class GamesController < ApplicationController

def index
@games = Game.search(params[:search])
end
end
[/code]

I was thinking about defining a helper method called "used_search?" in
the application_controller to used this method in an if-statement which
determines wether to display the index.html.erb or not...would that be
the usual way to solve this problem or what do experienced developers
do? I have no clue!

I would appreciate any kind of help! thanks

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