Comments on: Using AutoComplete with ActiveScaffold forms

By: Swartz

Swartz — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:32:19 +0000

After searching through ActiveScaffold group and trying all kinds of ways to get auto_complete to work, I finally found your guide. It was extremely useful.
Thanks a bunch.

By: Juergen

Juergen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:35:45 +0000

In order to make this work under Rails 2.3.4 one would need the following route.rb entry:

map.auto_complete ‘:controller/:action’,
:requirements => { :action => /auto_complete_for_\S+/ },
:conditions => { :method => :get }

Cheers Juergen

By: Juergen

Juergen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:52:35 +0000

Hi I tried to tailor something similar following your example here and I failed.
So in order to be sure I created a small test application using rails 2.3.4 and replicated your example here to the letter and I do get the same error.
Whenever I type something into the country text field I don’t get the auto complete functionality. In the log I get this error instead:

Processing CitiesController#show (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-09-23 10:48:03) [GET]
Parameters: {”country”=>{”name”=>”Fra”}, “id”=>”auto_complete_for_country_name”}
City Load (0.3ms) SELECT * FROM “cities” WHERE (”cities”.”id” = 0)

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound (Couldn’t find City with ID=auto_complete_for_country_name):

Here is did type “Fra” which should have resulted in “France” which I had added earlier on.

Would be great i could get this to work.
Cheers Juergen