similar to: Passing the input name to "text_field_with_auto_complete"

Hi, I have a tricky question about text_field_with_auto_complete. I''ve created an admin section for a database of books and on each page there is a form at the top with a single search field on the title of books. So I''ve used: <%= start_form_tag ({:controller => ''books'', :action => ''edit'' }) %> <label

Hi, I want to know which of the two methods, auto_complete_field and text_field_with_auto_complete best suits what I am trying to do. I have a model class called search (which doen''t extend ActiveRecord) which holds two parameters, category_string and postcode_string. I want my form to bind its values to these to values. I also want the category input to be an auto complete field

I need to pass a parameter in my text_field_with_auto_complete and am struggling to discover how to do this. I have something like this: <%= text_field_with_auto_complete ''user'', ''username'', {}, {:with => "''post=''@company_title.id"} %> but because it is in a partial that pops as a result from a remote_function_tag, I am

Dear all: I got the error in my rails 2.2.2 project on ma os x leopard. i did as follow: script/plugin install auto_complete but when i start the server and try to approach the page which used the auto_complete, it can''t find the helper method as the error told: "undefined method `text_field_with_auto_complete'' ", than i try this in script/console helper.methods i

hello rubys, i got a problem with the text_field_with_auto_complete(). everthing''s working but unfortunately the items (which are for choosing) are filled into the input=text in a way that is unacceptable. the first 6 characzers are empty-spaces, than the item and at last 5 empty-spaces. doeas anybody know why? and maybe how to solve this problem? my code is following: view:

hello all, I am trying to get a customized text_field_with_auto_complete working where the generated dropdown will display not only the list of teams (first line), but also their city and country(second line). In my view, I have: <p> <label for="team_name">Team: </label> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :team, :name, {}, :skip_style => true %>

First let me say that Im very new to rails, but Im a solid PHP programmer & Im very much enjoying the transition and working with such a nice framework. That said, Ive had my ups and downs over the past few weeks, such is to be expected as part of the learning process, but Ive run into a sort of brick wall, at least for my experience level. I am using the acts_as_taggable plugin in

I am seeing a problem with text_field_with_auto_complete in which the input does not get populated with the selected value, but only in firefox (1.5.0.4). Works in IE just fine. I have a super-simple mockup that shows this problem below. Can anyone please confirm for me that this does/does not work in firefox or point out my mistake? I''m wondering if I need to submit a bug? The example

I need a form where the user must enter a city name. I would like to use an autocomplete_field for the city name, so I have the following code in my view: <%= text_field_with_auto_complete ''entry'', ''city_name'', :size => 40 %> and in my controller I have the method: def auto_complete_for_entry_city_name @cities = City.find(:all,

I have a problem with text_field_with_auto_complete. Everything works fine except when I type special characters like ?,?,?. They are not escaped. "oberver_field" has a with-option like this: :with => "''ort='' + escape($F(''ort''))" This works fine with umlauts, too. Is there a way to escape the user input using

Hey guys, I have a text_field_with_auto_complete that looks like this: <%= text_field_with_auto_complete ("service_request", "req_name", {"size"=>40}) %> which goes to this in the controller: def auto_complete_for_service_request_req_name auto_complete_responder_for_investigators params[:service_request][:req_name] end

Hi, I am discovering RoR with Ajax and have some problem. I wanted to use the helper "text_field_with_auto_complete" I didn t succed to obtain the visual render (a drop down list) like here "http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/autocompleter"<http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/autocompleter>. Here is the code I use: |# view Just a little test: <%=

Hello everybody, I am new to ruby on rails, I am trying to create an auto_complete field on Ruby on Rails 2.0 and even though I have installed the auto_complete plugin and followed the instructions of various tutorials, specially the following: http://trix.pl/blog/auto-complete-for-rails-2-0-tutorial.html I am still getting the same error: undefined method

I''m pretty new to ruby and rails and have been racking my brain for a few hours on this one. I have set up a text_field_with_auto_complete and it works great. It talks to my controller correctly, firing my method that queries mySQL and returns a nice <ul> to select from all with CSS. Ok great. Now I want to be able to capture the ID of the item that the user will select from. I

Folks, I am trying to upgrade code base from 1.3.x to 2.3.2 and not surprisingly, lot of things are broken. ''text_field_with_auto_complete'' is not working for me - it gives the following error: ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `text_field_with_auto_complete'' for #<ActionView::Base: 0x7f0ceb6b8290>) I already have installed auto_complete - ruby

Good day. I have searched on the net and through the archives to now avail as of yet. I have a text_field_with_auto_complete that searches for company names. These company names obviously can have an ''&'' in the name of the company (example Barnes & Nobel). The auto complete works beautifully. However, the problem arises when I pass the name of the company to the

Hi everyone, I have been introduced to ruby on rails a couple of days ago and it really brings out the fun in programming for the Web. I''m trying to implement a text_field_with_auto_complete as described in script.aculo.us , as follows: controller: class SearchController < ApplicationController auto_complete_for :recipe, :name end search.rhtml: <html> <head><%=

I have some difficulties with text_field_with_auto_complete. I’m new to this, it just will not work, I must be doing something wrong. It would be great if someone could advise me. I have tried to follow advice available on the internet, so I don’t know what the problem is. The script gets as far as the breakpoint in the controller, but it doesn’t like the next line – giving the error message

Hi, I''m wondering if it is possible to pass an extra value (which I will use to further restrict my query) using text_field_with_auto_complete? Any suggestions would be appreciated! -Mike

I have a a basic prototype coded: #view <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :student, :last_name, { :size => 15 }, :after_update_element => "alert(''hello world'');" %> #controller class ScoresController < ApplicationController auto_complete_for :student, :last_name end If I take out the :after_update_element option everything works as advertised.