I asked about this before but perhaps didn't state clearly what it was I wanted. I have a select box and based on the user's choice a second select would be populated that relates to the choice made in the first box. I've googled around and found little on dependent drop downs for rails. Kind of surprises me since I'd think it would be a more common function. Can anyone point me in the direction ?
TIA Stuart
Alright, I found the thread. It probably makes sense for me at this point to get familiar with Ajax, rjs and all in Rails, before attempting.
Stuart
As I'm reading through the AJAX stuff (in AWDWR) I'm wondering about a few things If I have this one element in my form where when user picks option from another element is loaded - is this more of a javascript coding , like "onclick" or something that could be done with what's available within Rails. One idea is I'm having is to have that section of my form as a partial that will get triggered in the controller to update. This make sense ?
Stuart
It’s quite easy do that with the prototype helpers. Just use an observe of some element that calls a method in your controller, which in its turn will update a div on your page with a partial. Or you could look at the UJS plugin, I found it most useful as your view is a lot cleaner than when using the built-in methods.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt