can anyone help me work this functionality out? I actually have 3 classes each with a HABTM relationships with each other but right now I am just trying to get one to work. I have 2 models, 'employees' and 'practices' (healthcare field), and would like to have a text field on the 'employees' new and edit views so the practice(s) this employee belongs to can be added.
I have the linking table employees_practices created successfully and the HABTM associations created in the models (to each other). I have installed the plugin: script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/auto_complete.git - as it is no longer included in rails 2.3.8. I have included the <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> in the application.html.erb ((so its available throughout the app)) I have included <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :practice, :name %> in my _form for 'employees' I have added auto_complete_for :practice, :name to my employee controller
i normally get some variety of 'method undefined..etc' or some other variation no matter what i do. couple things: I did not create a new search controller as I am trying to add this text field to the existing views for 'employee' generated when I used nifty_scaffold to create employee. Also I feel like at least some of my issue is definitely in the controller, I don't think just adding auto_complete_for :practice, :name to the controller should work. I have tried all sorts of methods and can't get it to work. I would like to actually be able to list multiple 'practices' in the field separated by commas (something about using a token?
can anyone walk me through this? help with the controller? everything else look right?
Thanks
