Hobo Hobo

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  Bryan Larsen August 17th, 2009 @ 10:32 PM

  It looks to me like @sale is nil. can you please post your edit and create actions?

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  Bryan Larsen August 18th, 2009 @ 12:10 AM

  • State changed from “new” to “invalid”

  I think I'm going to drastically simplify the agility tutorial, it's leading people astray. Try this:

  In your Contacts controller (NOT your Sales controller)

  autocomplete :sortname
  

  And

  <contact-view:>
    <name-one completer="sortname"/>
  </contact-view:>
  

  I've updated the name-one documentation. Here's a preview:

  An <input type="text"> with auto-completion. Allows the user to chose the target of a belongs_to association by name.

  This tag relies on an autocompleter being defined in a controller. A simple example:

  <form with="&ProjectMembership.new">
    <name-one:user>
  </form>
  
  class ProjectMembership < ActiveRecord::Base
    hobo_model
    belongs_to :user
  end
  
  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    hobo_user_model
    has_many :project_memberships
  end
  
  class UsersController < ApplicationController
    autocomplete
  end
  

  The query string is what the user types into the control, the route to the completer action is specified in the attributes to the name-one tag, and the others are specified in your controller.

  The route used by the autocompleter looks something like /users/complete_name. The first part of this route is specified by the complete-target attribute, and the second part is specified by the completer attribute.

  complete-target specifies the controller for the route. It can be specified by either supplying a model class or a model. If a model is supplied, the id of the model is passed as a parameter to the controller. (?id=7, for example) The default for this attribute is the class of the context. In other words, the class that contains the has_many / has_one, not the class with the belongs_to.

  completer specifies the action for the route. name-one prepends complete_ to the value given here. This should be exactly the same as the first parameter to autocomplete in your controller. As an example: autocomplete :email_address would correspond to completer="email_address". The default for this attribute is the name field for the model being searched, which is usually name, but not always.

  The query string is passed to the controller in the query parameter. (?query=hello for example).

  For more information on how to customize the controller, see the controller manual