similar to: AJAX/drop-down form entry

I don''t even know what its called really, so its hard to search for. Here''s an example. They do this on MOG.com: There''s one text field visible. You type in a band name. Another text field appears. It auto completes album names based on the band name you chose in the first field. What is this type of thing called? Where is some source code I could look at? any

Hi, I want to make a flash[] highlighted for let''s say 5 seconds when some action is invoked. In the controller, I have: flash[:notice] = "error" In the layout, I have: <p style="color: white"><%= flash[:notice] %></p> I don''t know how to use ajax with the flash. I tried something like: element.highlight(flash[:notice]) without any

I''ve been trying to use the ez_where plugin to create a dynamic finder. The structure looks somehing like this.. === controller === def list attribute_filter = params[:filter] @filter = Caboose::EZ::Condition.new :table do attribute <=> attribute_filter if attribute_filter end # ... do the find with the @filter # end === view === .... <%= link_to

All, I have a form with the following field interaction rules. Given checkbox A, text field B text field C If checkbox A is checked then make text field C equal to the value of text field B and disable field C. If checkbox A is unchecked then enable field C. In order to display a form where I''m manipulating an already existing object, I have something like this in my RHTML template

Hello everyone, I''ve got a table of data that looks like the following: ... <tr> <td>Field 1</td> <td>Field 2</td> <td><%= link_to "Info about Field 1", ... %></td> <td><%= link_to "Info about Field 2", ... %></td> </tr> I''d like the user to be able to click on "Info about

Hi, I would like to be able to dynamically (without reloading the page) change the values from one listbox when a user select items from another listbox. I have a model ''Sector'' which has_many ''levels'' (and of cours, ''Level'' beyong_to ''sector''). I want to show the user two listboxes with the sectors and levels. But

hi, i have noticed that the validations in RoR happen at server side mostly what sites do is using javascript they validate user information there... whats the point of doing it at the server side is it that loading of javascript file in a browser makes a response to client slow and validation at server side offsets that....????? any sugeestions???? is it that i am missing something as

Hi, I am looking for ideas on how to remove the last item from a paginated page when a new item is inserted, thus leaving only 10 elements on the page. Currently I have a form that inserts with AJAX, but as expected, each post added to the page just increases the number of posts leaving 11 on a page that should only be displaying 10. I have unique ID''s for each post (e.g.

hi, i have a situation where i have a list of options from which a user selects his options if its not in the list he/she selects Others/Not Present and a new textfield should pop up and the data entered there should be considered instead of dropdown. i have done this using javascript/dhtml but i was wondering how this can be done using pure rails i.e using some of the RoR apis?. i would

Drag and drop sorting is great but if you had a list of, say, 100 items, you''d probably want to show only 10 per page. Has anyone seen any way to use the a drag and drop style sorting method over a number of pages? I see it working by having the displayed list sortable as normal then an item is moved to the next page by dragging it onto the ''next'' link... maybe...

Hello, how can I check if a destroy was successful? Is the object only frozen if deleted or do I have to do an additional find to see if there is a record left? What happens if an after_destroy callback returns false? Is there always a rollback? Markus

All, I am trying to perform a simple ajax task and am having some difficulties with the page showing the response. The action performs, but no response on the page. I have found examples on the web and I believe I have copied and pasted exactly what works from the demo site. However, on my system it isn''t finishing. For a simple test, I have limited it down to an alert.

What is the best way to create a drop down where the viewable text in a concatenation of 2 or more columns? For instance, I hane a lookup table with these columns. Model FOO columns: id , name, phone In my drop select tag, I''d like the user to see: "name1 phone1" "name2 phone2" etc.. I know I can do this using find_by_sql . .. But, isn''t there a more

a has many b''s b has many c''s results = A.find params[:id], :include => :b How do you also make sure the b''s include the c''s? Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com O: 800-341-6826 M: 817-229-4258 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I''m new to rails/ruby having come from PHP and am just starting to get my head round how easy it can be :) However, can anyone point me in the right direction for dynamicaly updating a select box based upon the choice of a previous select box, without a page refresh. Any and all help greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Just get started with Rails and I''m trying to read ahead and find out whether Active Record supports auto-creation of database tables for you? Is this supported, or is the concept that you write your own database DDL to do this? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Greetings. I have an application which is used to track jobs and payments. The billables table contains columns "job_date", "amount" and "receipt" which indicate the date of the job, the amount due and whether or not payment has been received, respectively. In addition to tracking and manipulating individual jobs, the application is also used to generate aggregate

This forum has been a great resource for me. It would be great if i can search the forum before posting any question, as i''m sure someone has already posted that question before. The search function has been disabled for quite sometime now. I''ve already emailed the administrator but haven''t got any response. any idea on when this would be enabled ? Thanks, VASU.

Hey guys, How do you stop Ruby code from executing? For example, def newaction puts "1" return puts "2" end I tried return in the following example, but it continues and than looks for newaction.rhtml. How do I stop it completely dead in its tracks? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am having a problem with ruby''s sort_by function. I want to sort a list of parent model objects based on the children of the parent models. Normally you might say sortedList = modelList.sort_by { |model| model[''someAttribute''] } What I am tring to do is sortedList = modelList.sort_by{ |model| model.children.find(:first, order=>"price desc" ).price}