lib/auto_complete_form_helper.rb test/auto_complete_form_helper_test.rb @@ -1,23 +1,23 @@ -Example: +Fork of the standard auto_complete plugin to create auto complete text fields that +can be repeated more than once a single form. - # Controller - class BlogController < ApplicationController - auto_complete_for :post, :title - end +A "text_field_with_auto_complete" method is made available to form_for and fields_for that: +- Insures unique id's for <input> and <div> tags +- Uses the object name from the surrounding call to form_for or fields_for so attribute +mass assignment will work as usual +- Works with the same server side controller method, auto_complete_for, as usual - # View - <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :post, title %> +See: http://patshaughnessy.net/repeated_auto_complete for details. -By default, auto_complete_for limits the results to 10 entries, -and sorts by the given field. +Example +======= -auto_complete_for takes a third parameter, an options hash to -the find method used to search for the records: +<% for person in @group.people %> + <% auto_complete_fields_for "group[person_attributes][]", person do |person_form| %> + <p> + Person <%= person_form.label :name %><br/> + <%= person_form.text_field_with_auto_complete :person, :name, {}, {:method => :get } %> + <% end %> +<% end %> - 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 (c) 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license +Copyright (c) 2009 [Pat Shaughnessy], released under the MIT license README @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ ActionController::Base.send :include, AutoComplete -ActionController::Base.helper AutoCompleteMacrosHelper \ No newline at end of file +ActionController::Base.helper AutoCompleteMacrosHelper +ActionView::Base.send :include, AutoCompleteFormHelper init.rb @@ -105,8 +105,14 @@ module AutoCompleteMacrosHelper # auto_complete_for to respond the AJAX calls, # def text_field_with_auto_complete(object, method, tag_options = {}, completion_options = {}) + auto_complete_field_with_style_and_script(object, method, tag_options, completion_options) do + text_field(object, method, tag_options) + end + end + + def auto_complete_field_with_style_and_script(object, method, tag_options = {}, completion_options = {}) (completion_options[:skip_style] ? "" : auto_complete_stylesheet) + - text_field(object, method, tag_options) + + yield + content_tag("div", "", :id => "#{object}_#{method}_auto_complete", :class => "auto_complete") + auto_complete_field("#{object}_#{method}", { :url => { :action => "auto_complete_for_#{object}_#{method}" } }.update(completion_options)) end lib/auto_complete_macros_helper.rb 7b18f05af68dec0f9e45b1a01d6b7c94e306caeb Pat Shaughnessy pat@patshaughnessy.net http://github.com/patshaughnessy/auto_complete/commit/0814a25a754a235c5cf6f7a258fa405059a5ca6f 0814a25a754a235c5cf6f7a258fa405059a5ca6f 2009-01-27T12:49:48-08:00 2009-01-27T12:49:48-08:00 Refactored to allow repeated fields on a complex form f2f7325741ee587d983e56ebd62cdd5c61b1c1f3 Pat Shaughnessy pat@patshaughnessy.net