I feel I'm on a constant Yak Shave
(http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html)
I am playing with Auto Complete's, due to some excellent tutorials on
railscast.com I have been making progress although hit a small stumbling
block which hope you can solve.
So I am auto completing from my Country model, which has 2 attributes
'name' and 'code'
If I just wanted the 'name' attribute to be returned then this would
suffice in my returns js
<%= auto_complete_result @countries, :country %>
However what I actually want is 'Country [code]' e.g 'Great Britain [ GB
]'
However I don't seem to be able to get this to work - in my Country
model I have added something like this.
def code_and_country
"#{name} [ #{code} ]"
end
def code_and_country=(code_and_name)
if m = code_and_name.match(/^([^\[]+)\[\s(\w{2})\s\]/)
code = m[2]
name = m[1]
end
end
so had hoped that I could use
<%= auto_complete_result @countries, :code_and_country %> - but I think
I am getting muddled up with methods and attributes.
So could someone be able to guide me on the correct way of doing it,
e.g. making code_and_country a fully fledged 'attribute' of Country or
somehow modifying the auto_complete_result helper to do the right thing?
Thanks for your help!
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