Autocomplete with DB + Urgent

Rails
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Hello Champs,

I fetch out the values of a table (suppose users) from database and want
to show them(user’s name) in a text-field with autocomplete…
Can i do this in rails … If yes, then how can … ?
Do not know any thing about it … May be you people can suggest me some
tutorials for it as well…
Waiting for every possible answer … :slight_smile:

2

Yes of course you can do it.I did it recently, and I did it using jQuery
with the plugin - http://dyve.net/jquery/?autocomplete
I exposed the right JSON API’s from my rails application and I had to
tweak
the plugin a bit to suit my needs but it works great.

There are other jQuery plugins you could have a look at too.

Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva S…

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Hemant B. <

3

I would begin here:

As a personal note, I find that autocomplete works well for smaller,
defined sets of possible inputs. People’s names can be, well, almost
anything, and I find autocomplete obtrusive in those cases. It’s not
really saving me anything.

4

Rails has scriptaculous and prototype built in and there are helpers
for autocomplete already. Have a look at the API documentation for
autocomplete.

On Aug 25, 11:25 am, Hemant B. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

5

Ok … Unable to do it …
But found another way …
Can you guyz tell me that how to write to a file at a specific position
…
I mean i want to write every time at line number 3 and character number
10 of file myfile…
Then how can i …?

I’ll tell you the whole answer after resolving it … :slight_smile:

Mukund wrote:

Rails has scriptaculous and prototype built in and there are helpers
for autocomplete already. Have a look at the API documentation for
autocomplete.

On Aug 25, 11:25�am, Hemant B. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

6

Google is your friend. :wink:

On Aug 26, 11:25 am, Hemant B. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

7

Thanks a lot guyz … done it using jquery library …
That library is using the data from a file… and then i modified that
file according to my modification … and found solution … :slight_smile:

Thanks for your support …

Mukund wrote:

Code Intensity: Auto-Complete Text Fields in Rails 2

Google is your friend. :wink:

On Aug 26, 11:25�am, Hemant B. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-