Rails spinoffs - Jul 2005 - draggables bug(s)

Loving using draggables/sortables in rails... two small issues though -

First bug: creating a draggable object with a handle in rails:

  <%= draggable_element "item_#{item.id}",
:handle=>"myhandle" %>

this generates code like this:

  <script type="text/javascript">new
Draggable(''item_7'',
{handle:myhandle})</script>

*** notice the missing quotes in the associative array around myhandle
-- simple fix to the javascript helpers for rails adding quotes ;) ***

Second bug:

having a draggable actually use the handle is borked:

  new Draggable(''item_7'', {handle:"myhandle"})

this is because:

  this.handle       = options.handle ? $(options.handle) : this.element;

which is because sortables sends the handle not as a class name but
the actual element - perhaps it should happen from within the
draggables by changing that line to

  this.handle = options.handle ? 
Element.Class.childrenWith(this.element, options.handle)[0] :
this.element;

then changing the sortables to send the class name to the draggables
constructor.

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Once those are done it works great thus far :)

Jesse Andrews