Question

I am trying to implement auto complete feature in my rails application.I am able to get print the array that i passed for the autocomplete.but the auto complete is not working.

My controller code:

 def new
 @release = Release.new
 @names = User.all(:select => "name").map { |x| x.name } 
    respond_to do |format|
  format.html # new.html.erb
    end
end

My view code:

 %td.grid.full_panels
    -table_panel "Assign Testers" do
      %table
        %th Name
        = form.label :tester_tokens, "Testers" 
        = form.text_field :tester_tokens
:javascript
   var data="#{escape_javascript @names.to_json}";    
= javascript_include_tag :defaults,:cache => true

My application.js code:

$(document).ready(function() {
alert (data);
$('#release_tester_tokens').autocomplete(data);
});

Answer 1

The autocomplete plugin actually expects an object literal with options when initialized.

To set the data, use the source property:

$(document).ready(function() {
    alert (data);
    $('#release_tester_tokens').autocomplete({
        source: data
    });
});