Rails - May 2006 - text_field_with_auto_complete part II (newbie question)

now that tha auto complete works (thanks Craig) I''m at a stumbling
point again.

here''s the situation.

I have a text box that gets populated from the auto complete that has
"ivanoff, john" and I want to add him to a list of approved users.

how do I get the id to add to the employees_users table?
do I need to look up the employee in the employee table or can I get
the id from the object?
still grasping OO

I''ve googled and googled.

thanks.

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:08 -0500, John Ivanoff wrote:
> now that tha auto complete works (thanks Craig) I''m at a stumbling
point again.
> 
> here''s the situation.
> 
> I have a text box that gets populated from the auto complete that has
> "ivanoff, john" and I want to add him to a list of approved
users.
> 
> how do I get the id to add to the employees_users table?
> do I need to look up the employee in the employee table or can I get
> the id from the object?
> still grasping OO
> 
> I''ve googled and googled.
----
If you look at the sample code that I included, it tosses in the
''id'' as
well which you can get out in your controller code with a
''split''

Craig

I noticed that.
In my old web thinking, I think I need to pass the ''id'' to the
controller so I can add them to the table.
Do I need to populate a field in the form to pass the id to the
controller or is there another way to get it?
can I extract the id from the employee object?

if I need to populate a field in the form for the id, how do I add the
id to a field when someone click on the drop down from the auto
complete?

obviously the
@employee = Employee.find(params[:id])
won''t work.

but I can''t find by name because there could be more than one "jim
jones"

ok I''m rambling...

On 5/22/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:08 -0500, John Ivanoff wrote:
> > now that tha auto complete works (thanks Craig) I''m at a
stumbling point again.
> >
> > here''s the situation.
> >
> > I have a text box that gets populated from the auto complete that has
> > "ivanoff, john" and I want to add him to a list of approved
users.
> >
> > how do I get the id to add to the employees_users table?
> > do I need to look up the employee in the employee table or can I get
> > the id from the object?
> > still grasping OO
> >
> > I''ve googled and googled.
> ----
> If you look at the sample code that I included, it tosses in the
''id'' as
> well which you can get out in your controller code with a
''split''
>
> Craig
>
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