# auto\_complete\_for not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/auto-complete-for-not-working/87>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 20, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/auto-complete-for-not-working/87 "2006-08-20T03:49:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jcblitz](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/jcblitz)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/auto-complete-for-not-working/87/1 "2006-08-20T03:49:48Z")

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Check out the source at [http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/autocompleter](http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/autocompleter), it gives a pretty good example. Also, make sure your fields don't have reserved names. I know I had a problem with a field named "description" so I assume that was a reserved word. I changed it to desc and had no problem.