I''m trying to figure out a way to have the rails3-auto-complete plugin pull back a Name field in the text box but when saving to the database, that it would only save a hidden id field and not the name (for database normalization purposes). Here is my example Category id name Item id name description category_id When I do the text field for autocomplete <input type="text" name="item[category]" value="TestValue" /> <input type="hidden" name="category_id" value="2" /> I would only want the hidden value submitted and I don''t know what a good approach or recommendation woudl be. I could denormalize the database but I don''t want too and I could also put some of these categories into just a standard file and read from them...but would like to learn how to do this properly within Rails. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.