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...g a list of many Animals--more than can be presented comfortably in a dropdown box. Therefore I need to either redirect to another screen to select an animal (returning after the selection is made), or show a dialog--modal or otherwise--to make the selection. The latter might be presented as a pagable grid, or perhaps as a grid with a textbox or dropdown to filter search results. Is there a convention for this in Rails? I looked at BaseCamp for examples but only found small groups of lookup values handled easily by simple dropdowns. A third option would be DHTML magic to dynamically populat...