Autocomplete - returning id that has been matched?

Rails
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Hi,

Has anyone got any suggestions or know of any examples where people have
got an autocomplete field to return the id of the row it has matched on.

I have been attempting to come up with a way to do this with the aim of
creating a pluign, but every method I have thought of so far seems a
little over complicated, so I would appreciate any suggestions that
anyone has

Cheers

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On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Scott A S wrote:

Has anyone got any suggestions or know of any examples where people
have
got an autocomplete field to return the id of the row it has matched
on.

I have been attempting to come up with a way to do this with the aim
of
creating a pluign, but every method I have thought of so far seems a
little over complicated, so I would appreciate any suggestions that
anyone has

Have you tried model_auto_completer?

http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/model_auto_completer

– fxn

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Scott A S wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone got any suggestions or know of any examples where people have
got an autocomplete field to return the id of the row it has matched on.

I have been attempting to come up with a way to do this with the aim of
creating a pluign, but every method I have thought of so far seems a
little over complicated, so I would appreciate any suggestions that
anyone has

The Scaffolding Extensions plugin [1] has a similar autocomplete field.
It returns the id followed by the name of the object, and you can use
to_i to get just the id.

Jeremy

[1]
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Scaffolding+Extensions+Plugin

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Thanks Jeremy and Xavier, that should save me some time!!