rails3-jquery-autocomplete

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An easy way to use jQuery’s autocomplete with Rails 3.

Supports both ActiveRecord.

Works with Formtastic and SimpleForm

ActiveRecord

You can find a detailed example on how to use this gem with ActiveRecord here.

Make sure your project is using jQuery-UI and the autocomplete widget before you continue.

You can find more info about that here:

http://jquery.com/
http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/
http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/
http://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs

I’d encourage you to understand how to use those 3 amazing tools before attempting to use this gem. Installing

Include the gem on your Gemfile

gem ‘autocomplete’

Install it

bundle install

Rails 3.1.x

Just add it to your layout javascript_include_tag “jquery.tokeninput.js”

stylesheet_link_tag ‘token-input’,‘token-input-facebook’,‘token-input-mac’

//= require jquery //= require jquery_ujs //= require jquery-ui

Usage :-

If you want to use this autocompletion means simply call the “autocompletion_field” helper into your view files.

This helper will automattically included in your view helpers

Before calling :-

you need to add below routes in routes.rb file.

match 'autocomplete' ,:to => 'autocomplete#autocomplete' , :as => :autocomplete

Then you should create file in config/initializer/auto_complete.rb,

In this you should create one constant call AUTO_COMPLETION_MAPPING then we need to create one hash with some name.

Ex.(config/initializer/auto_complete.rb)

AUTO_COMPLETION_MAPPING = {:article_author => {:class_name => ‘Author’,

:search_query => '@site.authors',
:name => 'article[author_ids]',
:display_name => 'firstname',
:search_field => 'firstname',
:value=> 'id'}
}

How to call :-

autocompletion_field(hash_name,options={}) :-

# Mandatory

 #  :Hash name   - This is the hash name which one you are defined in config/initializer/auto_complete.rb

In this hash some of the keys are mandatory :-

 #  :class_name      - Which model you wnt to search
 #  :search_query    - which query you want to fire 
 #  :name            - What is the name of the text field
 #  :display_name    - In auto completion which field you wnat to show.
 #  :search_field    - Which field you want to search
 #  :value           - which value you need sent to back end

#options

 #  :maximum_allowed   - How many entry we need to allow in autocompletion (default :- 45)
    :allow_new         - If you allow to create new entry (default :-false)

##### If allow new is true means :new_name is mandatory #######

:new_name          - If we are creating new entry with different name.

#### If allow new is false we no need to mention ######

:default_selection - With enter any thing which content you need to show (defalut :- 'Please enter value')
:null_message      - If result is empty with text you need to show (default :-'No results')
:sort              - Sorting between entries (default :- false)
:selected          - Default selection (default :- [])
:all_data          - This autocompletion Based on ajax request,if you no need ajax type means we can define own hash like {:id =>"key",:name=>"name"},So it won't sent url it will search from this hash only.
:instance_variables_to_set_and_quey - Some of instance we want to fire a query like @site.articles.by_category(@category),inthis case we need @category so we can give [["@category","Category.find(params[:category_id])"],["@site","Site.find(session[:site_id])"]].

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