Question

I installed this gem: https://github.com/crowdint/rails3-jquery-autocomplete

and applied it successfully:

class TagsController < ApplicationController
  autocomplete :name
end

I have a Tag model and I separate tags with a space in a tag! method:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :title, :content, :tags_attributes

  has_and_belongs_to_many :tags

  def tag!(tags)
    tags = tags.split(" ").map do |tag|
      Tag.find_or_create_by_name(tag)
    end
    self.tags << tags
  end
end

(It has a has_and_belongs_to_many relation with the Post model).

I created a post with these two tags: food drink.

Now the problem is that it autocompletes like this:

food
food drink

when I type food.

I want it to auto complete like this:

food

(when I type food)

and

drink

(When I type drink)

Any suggestions to fix this?

EDIT:

I’m starting to suspect that the gem is not working and this is the browser’s autocomplete.

Answer 1

Hey you didn’t mention any model name in the

autocomplete :name

I think it should be like this , if you are using tag model to get name of tags

autocomplete :tag , :name 

Also it will be helpful for you , to see the request in browser console . It shows the status of request .
Thanks