Rails - Apr 2006 - Autocompleter to read value from hidden field

I have an autocomplete field with road names (looking up in a database with
approx. 100,000 road names).
To limit the number of roads, i want an extra input field where to put
postal code.

I''m currently using <%= text_field_with_auto_complete %> for the
field.

What is the best way in Rails to intercept the Ajax call and send the value
of the postal_code field?

(I guess I could do it by hand, but I think that there is a smarter way of
doing this).

Thanks!

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Jesper R?nn-Jensen
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I believe you could play with the ":with" parameter of observe_field
to send
value of both fields with AJAX call instead of value of only the observed
field. For that, I would think you should put some javascript function that
collects the value and concatenates it in some form to the value of observed
field.

On 4/18/06, Jesper R?nn-Jensen <jesperrr@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I have an autocomplete field with road names (looking up in a database
> with approx. 100,000 road names).
> To limit the number of roads, i want an extra input field where to put
> postal code.
>
> I''m currently using <%= text_field_with_auto_complete %> for
the field.
>
> What is the best way in Rails to intercept the Ajax call and send the
> value of the postal_code field?
>
> (I guess I could do it by hand, but I think that there is a smarter way of
> doing this).
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> --
> Jesper R?nn-Jensen
> +45 23 73 62 20 (Mobile)
> http://justaddwater.dk/ (weblog)
>
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