Last night, Ed from the B'more on Rails meetup group gave me the key idea: use ActiveRecord::Observer. So I'm working on doing that. If you post any details about how to do that before I figure it out from the documentation, I'd appreciate any such feedback. -- Richard
On Apr 6, 3:47 pm, RichardOnRails <richarddummymailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve got an app\views\expenses\new.html.erb file displayed > athttp://www.pastie.org/906145. > Q1: Lines 22-26, repeated here create a drop-down list of “vendor > names” in true Ajax fashion: they push all lower-positioned items > south to make room for the vendor names being created. I’d rather > cover the lower items while the drop-down is visible, and restore the > covered item when the drop-down closes. > > 22: <div id="vendor_droplist" style="display:none"> > 23: <%= select_tag "list", > 24: options_for_select(@current_vendors), > 25: :multiple => true %> > 26: </div> > > I tried to modify line 25 to: > 25: :multiple => true, :z-index => 2 %> > but that and other forms yielded syntax-error responses. > > Q2:. I generated the content of @current_vendors with code in line 14: > 14: <% @current_vendors = Vendor.find(:all).collect { |vendor| > vendor.nickname } %> > > I’d like to each current_vendors item to be a button whose: > (i) toString method was invoked by options_for_select for presentation > purposes; and > (ii) onClick method invoke a specified function that: > a. copied the nickname in the drop-down to another text-box; and > b. invoked the toggle routine on the drop-down structure (the > toggling currently works). > > I poked around in books and online for an example of this kind of > thing, but to no avail thus far. Any suggestions on where to look or > how to implement this functionality. > > Thanks in Advance, > Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
