use jquery autocomplete. http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/autocomplete
<http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/autocomplete>sidenote: don't use joins as an association name because it's an argument for the find method. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Patrice Cartier <[email protected]>wrote: > hi, > > > i have 2 models and 1 join_table: > > film.rb > > has_many :joins, :dependent => :destroy > has_many :people, :through => :joins > > person.rb > > has_many :joins, :dependent => :destroy > has_many :films, :through => :joins > > join.rb > > belongs_to: film > belongs_to: person > > in views/films/ _form.rhtml > > <%- f.fields_for :joins do |builder| %> > <%= render "films/join_fields", :f => builder %> > <%- end %> > > > in the partial join_fields.rhtml : > > <p class="fields"> > > <%= f.select :person_id, options_for_select(Person.all(:order=> 'name > asc').map {|p| [p.name, p.id]}, f.object.person_id)%> > > <%= f.hidden_field :_destroy %> > <%= link_to_function "delete", "remove_fields(this)" %> > > </p> > > > I would like to change f.select ( because there is a lot of records ) by > auto-completion > > any idea ? > > > thanks! > > Patrice > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.com -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

