Question

I want to implement auto complete feature in a rails application. I am using the jquery auto complete plugin.

I want to implement the auto complete feature for the following array.

  @testers = User.find_by_sql("select * from users where id in(select user_id from user_role_assignments where role_id in (select id from roles where name like 'Tester')) order by name").paginate(:page=>params[:page],:per_page=>30)   

I want to pass this in json format to the .js file. I tried using the below code code in my view file.But the auto complete is not populating the data.

= form.label :tester_tokens, "Testers" 
        = form.text_field :tester_tokens
        - @testers.each do |tester|
          %tr
            %td=tester.name
            %td=check_box_tag "release[tester_ids][]", tester.id, @release.is_tester_assigned(tester)
      //=will_paginate @testers

:javascript
var data="#{escape_javascript @testers.to_json}";    
= javascript_include_tag :defaults,:cache => true

My .js file:

$(document).ready(function() {  

$.parseJSON(data);
  alert (data);
 $('#release_tester_tokens').autocomplete({source:data}); 

 });

Please help me out here.

Answer 1

You’re discarding the value returned by $.parseJSON.

$(function() {
    data = $.parseJSON(data);
    console.log(data);
    $('#release_tester_tokens').autocomplete({source:data}); 
});