I'm new to RoR and (and programming) and am having trouble wrapping my head around how to get this working. What I'm trying to do is autofill a web form with values I select from a drop-down menu. I want to pull these values in from my Openers table.
My DB Model is called Openers and has the following fields:
id description subject body
My Controller is called bar_controller.rb and contains only 1 method which pulls all the records from Openers and orders them by description:
class BarController < ApplicationController
def bar @show_openers = Opener.find(:all, :order => "description") end
end
I have 3 Views located user app/views/bar that make up a 2 column framed page. The first file is called index.html.erb and sets up the frames:
<frameset rows="10%, 90%"> <frame src="bar/bar" name="bar"> <frame src="bar/formtofill" name="formtofill"> </frameset>
The second file is called bar.html.erb and fills in the upper portion (top 10% of the page).
<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
<% form_for :bar, :url => { :action => :bar } do |form| %> <%= collection_select("openers", "opener_id", @show_openers, :id, :description ) %> <%= submit_tag "insert opener", :onClick => "parent.formtofill.document.form1.messagesubject.value='HERE_IS_SUBJECT', parent.formtofill.document.form1.messagebody.value='HERE_IS_BODY'" %> <% end %>
The last file is called formtofill.html.erb and fills in the bottom 90% of the page. It contains the form that I want to auto-populate with the values defined in bar.html.erb.
<form name="form1"> <div> <p>Subject:</p> <div> <div> <input type="text" style="width: 450px;" tabindex="1" id="messagesubject" name="messagesubject"/> </div> </div> </div>
<div> <p>Body:</p> <div> <textarea style="width: 450px;" tabindex="2" id="messagebody" cols="20" rows="20" name="messagebody"/> </textarea> </div> </div> </form>
Right now I've got the descriptions populating the dropdown and the onClick will stuff the static HERE_IS_SUBJECT and HERE_IS_BODY into the correct form fields, but there are still a few things I'm having trouble with:
1) How do I access the subject and body info? 2) Once question 1 is solved, how do I update the HERE_IS_SUBJECT and HERE_IS_BODY values on an onChange event (within the submit_tag helper) with the matching Openers.subject and Openers.body values for the Openers.description selection?
Thanks in advance for any help!!!
