Rails - Nov 2008 - Please help newb - observe_field?

thanks everyone,

I am using an autocomplete text field with associations following ryan
bates rails cast #102.

What i would like is when I autocomplete a customer name for their
"customer address" to show up in an editable text field below.

i''m currently using an observe_field, but not sure if this is the right
way.

[code]

<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :workorder, :customer_name, {}, { :url
=> formatted_customers_path(:js), :method => :get, :with =>
"''search='' +
element.value" } %><br />
       <%= observe_field :workorder_customer_name,
         :url => { :controller => :customers, :action => :results },
         :frequency => 3
         %>
[/code]

and i''ve been playing around with some rjs and partials with no
success.
I am very new to RoR, so any help would be appreciated, but it may have
to be "dumbed down" :)

thanks for your time.
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Hi Richard,

I have been posting like crazy to get achieve the same functionality.
I found the autocomplete doesn''t use a regular input tag so you
can''t
use observe_field on an autocomplete field. I did however find an auto-
complete plugin that will pass the id from the model so you can use
the id to lookup your information. I''m not sure how to implement it
however. Once I get that info, I''ll let you know what I came up with.
Here''s the link to the plugin, and if you already found this, or know
what to pass to the observe_field, I would be very thankful.

http://model-ac.rubyforge.org/

modelautocompleter is the name.

On Nov 6, 12:53 pm, Richard Scott
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> thanks everyone,
>
> I am using an autocomplete text field with associations following ryan
> bates rails cast #102.
>
> What i would like is when I autocomplete a customer name for their
> "customer address" to show up in an editable text field below.
>
> i''m currently using an observe_field, but not sure if this is the
right
> way.
>
> [code]
>
> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :workorder, :customer_name, {}, { :url
> => formatted_customers_path(:js), :method => :get, :with =>
"''search='' +
> element.value" } %><br />
>        <%= observe_field :workorder_customer_name,
>          :url => { :controller => :customers, :action => :results
},
>          :frequency => 3
>          %>
> [/code]
>
> and i''ve been playing around with some rjs and partials with no
success.
> I am very new to RoR, so any help would be appreciated, but it may have
> to be "dumbed down" :)
>
> thanks for your time.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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Thanks Chris,

  I''ve looked at that plugin and couldn''t firgure it out.  not
much
documentation for it.  But it does seem like it does what I would like. 
Thanks for the response, keep me posted on what you find, and I''ll do 
the same.
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