Working With Rails

Auto Complete

Example:

1. Controller class BlogController < ApplicationController auto_complete_for :post, :title end

1. View <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :post, title %>

By default, auto_complete_for limits the results to 10 entries, and sorts by the given field.

auto_complete_for takes a third parameter, an options hash to the find method used to search for the records:

auto_complete_for :post, :title, :limit => 15, :order => 'created_at DESC'

For more examples, see script.aculo.us:

• http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter
• http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter_customized

Copyright© 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license

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