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model_auto_completer

model_auto_completer provides autocompletion for models. That is, the user autocompletes a text field, but the widget is able to manage a hidden field that stores the ID of the model that corresponds to the selected completion.

Such a widget may be useful when the number of options is too much for a select. Say you need to assign a director to a movie having a database of hundreds of directors. With this plugin it is easy to let the user autocomplete by director name, and have a robust database ID managed under the hood.

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Home http://model-ac.rubyforge.org/
Repository svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/model-ac/trunk/vendor/plugins/model_auto_completer
License Rails' (MIT)
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Rating (45 votes)
Owner ASPgems
Created 18 January 2007

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    Wolfram Arnold
    11 February 2008

    This is a cool plugin. I'm missing a way to turn off the automatic suffix generation for the text field ID. This screws up the automatic insertion of a div tag for error highlighting if the field is wrong/missing (relevant only here, if :allowfreetext => true), of course.

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    12 February 2008

    @Wolfram: good, I'm working on a new release and will add this feature. Thank you!

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    31 March 2008

    If you want modelautocompleter not to generate inline CSS, just:

    <%= belongsto_autocompleter :book, :author, :fullname, {}, {}, { :skip_style => true } %>

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    31 March 2008

    @Javier Vidal, thank you, added to the docs of 1.5.

    @Wolfram, provided as a flag :appendrandomsuffix, in 1.5 as well.

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    Serguei
    5 May 2008

    Well done,Xavier,thanks a lot.

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    jc
    30 June 2008

    It would be cool if there were a way to use this with has_many :through

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    8 July 2008

    @jc would you please send me a use case at fxn at hashref dot com?

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    Dicky
    16 October 2008

    Thank you for this plug-in Xavier, you've saved me from having to re-invent the wheel! ;-)

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    6 April 2009

    Thanks for this very useful plugin. It just lack auto error displaying :-(

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