Auto_complete plugin in Rails 2.2.2 (auto_complete_for method not found)

Rails
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Hello world,
I am considering myself to be a newbie in Ruby, but not programming in
general and i have a very serious problem trying to get Rails 2.2.2 to
install the auto_complete plugin in Windows XP. I always get the
“auto_complete_for method not found” error in ruby.

After 2 days of full-internet-search I have tried the following:

  • Using the “ruby script/plugin install auto_complete” command :
    results in “not found” (even after adding every single repository
    under discovery)

  • Trying to load the SVN URL posted in oh-so-many forums, in the “ruby
    on rails” official site, I get a “page not found” error

  • Trying to manually copy the files in the vendor/plugin directory of
    my project (got them from the model_auto_completer example), but still
    does not work… (if i execute “script/plugin list” there is nothing)

Regarding this last part, i have been trying to find documentation
about how to manually install a plugin, but with no results. In every
forum that someone asks “how to do it manually” people respond with
“script/plugin install”. This is automatic, not manually, as i am sure
most of you know. What i am searching for is instructions on: where to
place the files myself and what to execute myself so that my project
will ‘use’ the plugin.

I will be thankful for any help you might offer, no matter how small,
but PLEASE don’t repeat to me steps i have already taken with no
differentation what-so-ever. This is both pointless and insulting.

Yours sincerely,
a frustrated RoR programmer
Spiros K.

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On 13 Feb 2009, at 09:19, Spiros K. wrote:

most of you know. What i am searching for is instructions on: where to
place the files myself and what to execute myself so that my project
will ‘use’ the plugin.

Copying the files into vendor/plugins is all there is to it 99% of the
time. Some plugins have an install.rb file that needs to be run after
this.
Don’t worry about the output of script/plugin list (which as far as I
can tell is for listing available, not installed plugins)

The autocomplete plugin is on github these days:

Newer versions of rails include a version of script/plugin that can
install plugins from git repositories (assuming you have git itself of
course).

Fred

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Thanks for your reply,
but

  1. this specific plugin did not have an install.rb with it.
  2. 2.2.2 is as new as they get I just downloaded 3 weels ago…?! And
    i think it works just fine with git as I have downloaded from git as
    well (though it messed my tortoise svn structure pretty badly)

Then fired up my script/server and still:

“method not found” for autocomplete_for method!!! :frowning:

On Feb 13, 12:55 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]

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Yes, the plugin IS in vendor plugins and YES you can check my first
post in the thread and see that my 2nd post was actually a typo in my
behalf. The problem remains as stated.

BTW, the code was copy-pasted from tutorials that supposedly work, so
I doubt there is any weird typo in the actual code.

On Feb 14, 12:41 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]

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On Feb 14, 3:52 pm, “Spiros K.” [email protected] wrote:

Yes, the plugin IS in vendor plugins and YES you can check my first
post in the thread and see that my 2nd post was actually a typo in my
behalf. The problem remains as stated.

odd. i’d stick a breakpoint in the plugin’s init.rb to see what was
happening there (you should have vendor/plugins/auto_complete/init.rb
and vendor/plugins/auto_complete/lib ) If you have changed
config.plugins or config.plugin_paths in environment.rb that could
cause this (but I rather suspect you’d remember if you’d done that).

BTW, the code was copy-pasted from tutorials that supposedly work, so
I doubt there is any weird typo in the actual code.

I wouldn’t be so sure :slight_smile:

Fred

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On Feb 14, 9:58 am, “Spiros K.” [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for your reply,
but

  1. this specific plugin did not have an install.rb with it.
  2. 2.2.2 is as new as they get I just downloaded 3 weels ago…?! And
    i think it works just fine with git as I have downloaded from git as
    well (though it messed my tortoise svn structure pretty badly)

so is the plugin in vendor/plugins ?

Then fired up my script/server and still:

“method not found” for autocomplete_for method!!! :frowning:

I also assume that that was a typo and you actually write
auto_complete_for in your controller.

Fred

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I checked today and everything is in order (that is commented out as
is the default).
Do you mean i should have added 1 or more lines to the
“environment.rb” file??

Anyway, so for the sake of completeness, here is my code!

#models#
#----------#

#book model
has_many :book_authorities, :dependent => :delete_all
has_many :authorities, :through => :book_authorities

#authority_model
has_many :book_authorities, :dependent => :delete_all
has_many :books, :through => :book_authorities

#book_authority model
belongs_to :book
belongs_to :authority
auto_complete_for :authority, :surname

#view#
#------#

<% fields_for "book[book_authority_attributes][]", book_authority, :index => nil do |bookauthority_form| %> authority: <%= bookauthority_form.select(:authority_id, $allnames) %>
capacity: <%= bookauthority_form.text_field :capacity, :index => nil %>
<% if book_authority.new_record? %> <%= link_to_function "remove", "$(this).up ('.book_authority').remove()" %> <% else %> <%= link_to_function "remove", "mark_for_destroy_ba(this)" %> <%= bookauthority_form.hidden_field :id %> <%= bookauthority_form.hidden_field :should_destroy, :index => nil, :class => 'should_destroy' %> <% end %> <% end %>

#controllers#
#---------------#

#application_controller

def update_authorities
#@allauthorities = Authority.find(:all, :limit => 5000, :order =>
“id ASC”)
@allauthorities = Authority.find(:all)
$allnames = Hash.new()
for a in @allauthorities
$allnames.merge!({ ((a.surname || “”) + " " + (a.name || “”) +
“,” + (a.short_title || “”)) => a.id})
end
end

On Feb 14, 6:55 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]