From: Todd Benson Date: 2008-03-09T11:38:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Creating a search On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:54 PM, William James wrote: > On Mar 8, 4:39 am, Tom Ha wrote: > > > params[:search] (i.e. params[:search][:firstname], > > params[:search][:lastname], params[:search][:gender], etc.) > > It is mindless to ask a person "What is your gender?" > Gender only applies to words. I like the idiosyncrasies of language, so I beg to differ on that one. Gender only applies to "traits". > The correct question is "What is your sex?" I could use your argument to disagree with that, but I won't, because that is probably the most understandable. Todd