Rails - May 2006 - (nebie) Autocomplete and many to one relationship?

All,

I''m trying to get autocomplete to work for the first time.

I''m not sure if I''m doing this right or not.

I have a table where one of the fields is a employees name.  I expect a
relatively small collection of person''s names will be used.

I created a simple employees table with just 2 fields: id, and name.

Then in my main table I added a employee_id field and setup the belongs_to:
/ has_many: entries in the models of each.

In my _form.rhtml I have the autocomplete line that is working:
<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :employee, :name %>

ie. If I start typing, I get a pull-down like entry populated from my
employees table.

The trouble is with the save at the end.  Nothing is getting saved to either
my employees table in the situation a new employee name is typed, and not to
my main table.

First, is this supposed to work?

If so, do I have to add code to the update method for my main controller?
None of the examples I''ve looked discuss doing so.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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