Volt::Chosen

This gem provides Volt bindings for Chosen, a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more user friendly.

Status

This is a 0.1; I put it together in a rush for my own purposes. I'm using it for multiple selects, but haven't tested any other functions.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'volt-chosen'

Then add component 'chosen' in your component's config/dependencies.rb.

Usage

Do something like this in your view:

<:chosen multiple="true" chosen_options="{{ {placeholder_text_multiple: 'Any'} }}" value="{{ model.research_status_keys }}" options="{{ Practice::RESEARCH_STATUSES }}" />

Options

Any of the Chosen options can be passed through the chosen_options attribute as shown above.

Events

important The change event that Chosen fires on select was throwing an error in Volt 0.9.6 when it caught somewhere higher up the stack. I didn't have time to fully chase it down, so instead this gem currently catches change and raises chosen:change. Thus, you must use chosen:change if you want to do something with the change event.

Credit

Thanks to all the folks who contribute to Chosen, it's amazing!

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/matthew342/volt-chosen/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

List of needs:

1. Some integration tests for multiple selects
2. Test and tweak to make sure single selects work
3. Would be nice to add support for optgroups