Rails spinoffs - Jul 2007 - text_field_with_auto_complete :after_update_element not firing

I''m pretty new to ruby and rails and have been racking my brain for a
few hours on this one.  I have set up a text_field_with_auto_complete
and it works great.  It talks to my controller correctly, firing my
method that queries mySQL and returns a nice <ul> to select from all
with CSS.  Ok great.

Now I want to be able to capture the ID of the item that the user will
select from.  I have tried using :after_update_element as described on
script.aculo.us and elsewhere on the web.  No luck.  It never seems to
fire.

As a test I created a javascript file (placed it in the javascripts
folder, and include it in my header) that looks like this:

function get(text, li) {
	alert(li.id);
}

Then I call this function from my autocompleter text field like so:

Plan Name:
<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :plan, :name, {}, :skip_style =>
true, :frequency => 0, :indicator => "spinner",
:after_update_element
=> ''get'' -%>
<%= image_tag ''spinner.gif'', :id =>
''spinner'', :style => ''display:
none''%>

Oh, and my dropdown partial looks like this:

<ul class="plans">
	<% for plan in @plans do -%>
	<li id="<%= plan.id %>", class="plan"><%=
plan.name%></li>
	<% end %>
</ul>

I don''t get any alert called.  I''ve tried so many variations
with no
luck.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!


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