Rails spinoffs - May 2006 - comma separated autocompletion, like in Google Bookmarks, GMail, ..

Hi list,
Hi all,

In Google Bookmark and GMail -f.ex.-, autocompletion would help you 
enter multiple values in 1 field, separated by commas.
Is there such a solution available somewhere?

This is necessary for the acts_as_taggable plugin, to let people enter 
many tags in one file
   ex:   "rails, ruby, plugin"
but with the help of some AJAX magic. Without it, people have no clue 
about the existing tags, and there''s no way to keep them from creating 
slight  variations - singular/plural, diff. casing, ..-., and it makes 
the who tag system much less useful.

TIA

Alain

>From the wiki -
Tokenized autocompletion
Tokenized incremental autocompletion is enabled automatically when an
autocompleter is instantiated with the ''tokens'' option in the
options parameter:


 new Ajax.Autocompleter(''id'',''upd'',
''/url/'', { tokens: '','' });

will incrementally autocomplete with a comma as the token.

Additionally, '','' in the above example can be replaced with a
token array, e.g. tokens: ['','', ''\n''] }
which enables autocompletion on multiple tokens.
This is most useful when one of the tokens is \n (a newline), as it allows smart
autocompletion after linebreaks.

Regards,
Mandy.

> Tokenized autocompletion
    >  new Ajax.Autocompleter(''id'',''upd'',
''/url/'', { tokens: '','' });


In Rails, it translates to

      <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :tagz, :list ,{},{:tokens => 
['','', ''\n'']} %>


Thanks a lot Mandy.

Maninder, Singh wrote:
    >>From the wiki -

We badly need a downloadable and printable documentation, with a single 
entry point.


Alain Ravet