Rails - Aug 2005 - Help with generated auto_complete and observe_field

I''m trying to get a vanilla text_field_with_auto_complete and  
observe_field to work together to no avail.

I have four sets of field and observer rendering on one page, and  
each one should match the names of whatever ActiveRecord class  
(passed as parent) they autocomple against. The observe field should  
fetch the name of the item selected, and send it to another  
controller action then update <ul id="#{parent}-actions> with the  
results from that action.

But I can''t get the observe_field to trigger, not even if I code the  
id of the text_field statically.

Here''s the code, what am I missing? Is there a better way to do this?

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# _form.rhtml
<p><label for="<%= parent %>_name">Find <%= h(
parent ) %></label>
     <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :"#{parent}", :name, { :size
=> 30 } -%></p>

<% observe_field "#{parent}_name", :frequency => 1,
             :url => { :controller => ''dashboard'',
:action =>
''regenerate_action_list'' },
             :update => "#{parent}-actions",
             :with => "''item='' + escape(value)",
             :complete => visual_effect(:highlight, "#{parent}- 
actions", :duration => 1 ) %>

# index.rhtml
...
render :partial => ''form'', :locals => { :parent =>
parent_1 }
render :partial => ''form'', :locals => { :parent =>
parent_2 }
render :partial => ''form'', :locals => { :parent =>
parent_3 }
render :partial => ''form'', :locals => { :parent =>
parent_4 }
...
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Thanks,

Kjell [http://station11.net]