Auto_complete works sometimes

Rails
1

Hello All:

I have set up an auto_complete search field within my application
controller and application layout so that it is available to all pages
in my app. I have run into a snag with this in two projects I am working
on where it won’t work on one particular page related to a specific
controller.

I get a No Method error on the column name referenced in the
auto_complete arguments, even though the column name is set correctly
and the feature works on every other page in the app…not sure why. Any
ideas?

Thanks,
David

2

Figured it out straight away…the model referenced in the auto_complete
arguments was in the singular (client), but I had also created a
variable @client in the controller method for that page to call some
other data from the client table. This seemed to cause a conflict with
the auto_complete call. By changing @client to @clients in the
controller it worked.

Maybe this will help someone. Anybody know why exactly it caused the
error in the first place?

Cheers,
David