# ajax.Autocompleter not working in Rails 3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-autocompleter-not-working-in-rails-3/190238>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-autocompleter-not-working-in-rails-3/190238 "2010-06-17T16:22:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-autocompleter-not-working-in-rails-3/190238/1 "2010-06-17T16:22:28Z")

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I have spent most of today trying to make the ajax.Autocompleter work  
in a Rails 3 application.

To this point, I can get the autocompleter.local to work, but not the  
AJAX version.

The View:  
= form\_for [:admin, @contact] do |f|  
= f.error\_messages  
%p  
= f.label :name\_first, “First”  
= f.text\_field :name\_first  
= f.label :name\_mi, “M”  
= f.text\_field :name\_mi, :size =\> “5px”  
= f.label :name\_last, “Last”  
= f.text\_field :name\_last  
%p  
= f.label :name\_salutation, “Salutation”  
= f.text\_field :name\_salutation, :size =\> “60px”  
(ex. Mrs. Jones)  
%p  
= f.label :title, “Title”  
= f.text\_field :title, :size =\> “60px”  
%p  
= f.label :org\_name  
= f.text\_field :org\_name  
%div.autocomplete#org\_list

:javascript  
new ajax.Autocompleter(‘contact\_org\_name’, ‘org\_list’, “http://  
localhost:3000/admin/contacts/autocomplete”)  
%p  
= render 'autocomplete’eter  
%p  
= f.radio\_button :is\_male, “true”  
= f.label “Male”  
= f.radio\_button :is\_male, “false”  
= f.label “Female”  
%p  
= f.radio\_button :is\_married, “true”  
= f.label “Married”  
= f.radio\_button :is\_married, “false”  
= f.label “Single”

%p  
= f.submit