text_field_with_auto_complete does not obey tokens

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi. I'm using the following

<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :item, :content, {:skip_style => true, :tokens => ','} %>

but it stops auto-completing after I type the first "," in the field. For example, I type "d" and let it complete to "dog", and then I type "," and another "d". It doesn't suggest anything for the second token.

I see, from the server output, that it's sending the following

... WHERE (LOWER(content) LIKE '%dog,d%') ...

to mysql. So, it's not trying to isolate the material after the ",".

Am I missing something here? For example, do I have to tell my controller something in addition to

  auto_complete_for :item, :content, :limit => 20

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(I'm answering myself, in case it's of benefit to someone who searches to this thread.)

The problem was that I forgot an element in the hash. It works as expected when I write e.g.

<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :item, :content, { :size => 60}, {:skip_style => false, :tokens => ','} -%>

(note the :size element ... I could have just put {} there also.)

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No, it has no effect except on the aesthetics. I found it looked nicer with the new setting.

The key change I made was to add another field, the one with :size in it. I could have just put {} for that field, and I would still have had working tokenization.