# In\_place\_edit help (maybe with script.aculo.us)?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-edit-help-maybe-with-script-aculo-us/124878>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 3, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-edit-help-maybe-with-script-aculo-us/124878 "2008-01-03T13:53:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-edit-help-maybe-with-script-aculo-us/124878/1 "2008-01-03T13:53:38Z")

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Hello,

I am using RoR and want to place a in\_place\_edit function that gets  
information from a database, edit and then saves it back to the  
database. Can anybody tell me how to do this?

I found a lot of examples on the web but none of them worked for me ☹  
(The most successfull I have tried was [script.aculo.us](http://script.aculo.us) but without  
database)

Thanks!

Mark

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**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-edit-help-maybe-with-script-aculo-us/124878/2 "2008-01-07T10:05:52Z")

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There’s the classic in\_place\_edit plugin (plugin install  
in\_place\_editing) or _shameless plug_ you could use my RESTful inplace  
editor (plugin install  
[http://svn.varwig.org/rails/plugins/rest\_in\_place](http://svn.varwig.org/rails/plugins/rest_in_place)).  
It even let’s you chose between jQuery and Prototype.