Module: AutoCompleteJquery::ClassMethods

Defined in:
lib/jquelpers/jquelpers.rb

Overview

Example:

# Controller
class BlogController < ApplicationController
  auto_complete_for :post, :title
end

# View
<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :post, title %>

By default, auto_complete_for limits the results to 10 entries, and sorts by the given field.

auto_complete_for takes a third parameter, an options hash to the find method used to search for the records:

auto_complete_for :post, :title, :limit => 15, :order => 'created_at DESC'

For help on defining text input fields with autocompletion, see ActionView::Helpers::JavaScriptHelper.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#jq_ac_for(object, method, options = {}) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/jquelpers/jquelpers.rb', line 138

def jq_ac_for(object, method, options = {})
  define_method("jq_ac_for_#{object}_#{method}") do
    object_constant = object.to_s.camelize.constantize

    find_options = {
      :conditions => [ "LOWER(#{method}) LIKE ?", '%' + params[:term].downcase + '%' ],
      :order => "#{method} ASC",
      :select => "#{object_constant.table_name}.#{method}",
      :limit => 10 }.merge!(options)

    @items = object_constant.find(:all, find_options).collect(&method)

    render :text => @items.uniq.inspect
  end
end