Rails - Jan 2006 - finishing a lookup value

I have a form...2 tables and using auto_complete

table clients
id 
case_manager_id
foreign key case_manager_id to case_manager(id)

table case_manager
id
name

my app/views/clients/_form.rhtml includes which works (finally!)
<%= text_area_auto_complete_for :case_manager :name %>

and now in clients_controller.rb

def create
  @client = Client.new(params[:client])

I need to add a line to this which gets the case_manager.id from the
case_manager.name that I have already derived from auto_complete and
insert it into client.case_manager_id

I can''t figure this one out. Help?

Thanks

Craig

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 16:43 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I have a form...2 tables and using auto_complete
> 
> table clients
> id 
> case_manager_id
> foreign key case_manager_id to case_manager(id)
> 
> table case_manager
> id
> name
> 
> my app/views/clients/_form.rhtml includes which works (finally!)
> <%= text_area_auto_complete_for :case_manager :name %>
> 
> and now in clients_controller.rb
> 
> def create
>   @client = Client.new(params[:client])
> 
> I need to add a line to this which gets the case_manager.id from the
> case_manager.name that I have already derived from auto_complete and
> insert it into client.case_manager_id
> 
> I can''t figure this one out. Help?
----
still working on this

   @case_manager = CaseManager.find_by_name( name )
   @client.case_manager_id  = @case_manager
or
   @case_manager = CaseManager.find_by_name( case_manager[name] )
   @client.case_manager_id  = @case_manager

always gives me error "undefined local variable or method
''[whatever is
located inside the parens]'' "

I need to pull the case_manager.id value into client.case_manager_id and
I already have obtained the ''name'' to match case_manager.name
from the
auto_complete on the form.

The Agile book doesn''t have anything similar and I''m
apparently not
smart enough to deduce how this is done.

Craig