text field with autocomplete

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Hey everybody,

I am using text field with autocomplete in my posts new action. That works great. Response from autocompleter in firebug: POST http://localhost:3001/posts/auto_complete_for_tag_name 200 OK 68ms

but if I use the same in edit action it fails and I got this error. POST http://localhost:3001/posts/781/auto_complete_for_tag_name 404 Not Found 81ms

*** POSTS controller: *** def auto_complete_for_tag_name     @tag = Tag.find(:all, :conditions => ["name LIKE ?",#{params[:tag][:name]}%"])     render :inline => "<%= auto_complete_result(@tag, 'name') %>"   end

*** posts NEW and EDIT view *** <div id="add_tag">   <% form_remote_tag( :url => {:controller => :tags}, :html => {:id => 'tag_form'}) do %>     Name: <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :tag, :name, {:min_chars => 2, :class => "text"} %>     <%= submit_tag 'Add' %>   <% end %> </div>

Thank for your help.

Cheer Pete

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Maybe try form_for instead of form_remote_tag?

I wrote a gem that creates some scaffolding code customized for the auto complete that might help you get a form working in your app quickly; see: Auto_complete scaffolding - Pat Shaughnessy Later you could adapt the scaffolding code to do what you really need.

- pat http://patshaughnessy.net