Question

Simple question really – how do I use text_field_with_auto_complete inside a form_for block?

I’ve tried doing f.text_field_with_auto_complete but that gives an error, and just using text_field_with_auto_complete by itself doesn’t seem to do anything.

Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

A couple of months back I wrote a plugin that allows you to call the ‘text_field_with_auto_complete‘ method directly on fields_for or form_for. The idea was to support text fields that appear more than once in a form by generating unique ids to allow the javascript to work, but it might help solve your problem also, or at least give you some new ideas.

See: http://github.com/pat11639/repeated_auto_complete

…and this article for details for how it works: http://patshaughnessy.net/2008/10/31/modifying-the-autocomplete-plugin-to-allow-repeated-fields