CHANGELOG @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ This plugin provides a auto-complete method for your controllers to be used -with the jquery-autocomplete jQuery plugin. This jQuery plugin is not +with Dylan Verheul's jquery autocomplete plugin. This jQuery plugin is not included, and can be obtained from: -http://github.com/ReinH/jquery-autocomplete +http://www.dyve.net/jquery/?autocomplete This auto_complete_jquery plugin is just a modified version of the standard Rails auto_complete plugin. It provides the same auto_complete_for method -for your controllers, but elliminates the various view helper methods, as +for your controllers, but eliminates the various view helper methods, as those are not needed when using jQuery and Unobtrusive JavaScript. -To use this, you need to have jQuery and the jquery-autocomplete plugin -mentioned above (as well as that plugin's other jQuery plugin dependencies -which are included with it). Then, there are four aspects of setting up -an auto-complete field: +To use this, you need to have jQuery and the autocomplete plugin mentioned +above (as well as appropriate CSS). Then, there are four aspects of setting +up an auto-complete field: 1) Create the text field in your view, which is just a regular form text field as you'd create in a Rails erb view: @@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ auto-complete method in your controller, such as: using jQuery and the jquery-autocomplete plugin mechanism, for example: $(document).ready(function() { - $("input#post_title").autocomplete({ ajax: "auto_complete_for_post_title" }) + $("input#post_title").autocomplete("auto_complete_for_post_title") }); By default, auto_complete_for limits the results to 10 entries, @@ -49,9 +48,9 @@ the find method used to search for the records: For more information, see: * jQuery site: http://jquery.com -* jquery-autocomplete plugin home on GitHub: http://github.com/ReinH/jquery-autocomplete -* jquery-autocomplete plugin home on jQuery site: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jq-autocomplete -* Good article on jQuery, Rails, and mention of jquery-autocomplete: http://errtheblog.com/posts/73-the-jskinny-on-jquery +* Dylan Verheul jquery autocomplete plugin site: http://www.dyve.net/jquery/?autocomplete +* Good article on jQuery and Rails (note this mentions a different jquery autocomplete + plugin, which was originally used in this plugin): http://errtheblog.com/posts/73-the-jskinny-on-jquery * Original Rails auto_complete plugin: http://github.com/rails/auto_complete README @@ -26,22 +26,23 @@ module AutoCompleteJquery # For help on defining text input fields with autocompletion, # see ActionView::Helpers::JavaScriptHelper. # - # For more on jQuery auto-complete, see the jQuery autocomplete plugin for jQuery: - # * http://github.com/ReinH/jquery-autocomplete + # For more on jQuery auto-complete, see the docs for the jQuery autocomplete + # plugin used in conjunction with this plugin: + # * http://www.dyve.net/jquery/?autocomplete module ClassMethods def auto_complete_for(object, method, options = {}) define_method("auto_complete_for_#{object}_#{method}") do object_constant = object.to_s.camelize.constantize find_options = { - :conditions => [ "LOWER(#{method}) LIKE ?", '%' + params[:val].downcase + '%' ], + :conditions => [ "LOWER(#{method}) LIKE ?", '%' + params[:q].downcase + '%' ], :order => "#{method} ASC", :select => "#{object_constant.table_name}.#{method}", :limit => 10 }.merge!(options) @items = object_constant.find(:all, find_options).collect(&method) - render :json => @items.to_json + render :text => @items.join("\n") end end end lib/auto_complete_jquery.rb d86ebcb640fc8dca440ff17ce65d6e728402fbe5 Christopher Bailey chris@cobaltedge.com http://github.com/chris/auto_complete_jquery/commit/d2d287fcd36959ee5058ff2ca208d25c50ab4272 d2d287fcd36959ee5058ff2ca208d25c50ab4272 2008-07-01T10:53:33-07:00 2008-07-01T10:43:06-07:00 Switched to different jQuery autocomplete plugin from Dylan Verheul. Fixes case [in]sensitivity problem, drastically improves speed, provides caching, and variety of other improvements. 60cf33cf841b4b166c9ad3173c2a47afdc3da192 Christopher Bailey chris@cobaltedge.com