Module: RailsAutocomplete::Autocomplete

Included in:
ActionController::Base
Defined in:
lib/rails-autocomplete/autocomplete.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: ClassMethods

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(target) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/rails-autocomplete/autocomplete.rb', line 3

def self.included(target)
  target.extend RailsAutocomplete::Autocomplete::ClassMethods
  target.send :include, RailsAutocomplete::Orm::ActiveRecord
end

Instance Method Details

#get_autocomplete_limit(options) ⇒ Object

Returns a limit that will be used on the query



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# File 'lib/rails-autocomplete/autocomplete.rb', line 71

def get_autocomplete_limit(options)
  options[:limit] ||= 10
end

#get_object(model_sym) ⇒ Object

Returns parameter model_sym as a constant

get_object(:actor)
# returns a Actor constant supposing it is already defined



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# File 'lib/rails-autocomplete/autocomplete.rb', line 80

def get_object(model_sym)
  model_sym.to_s.camelize.constantize
end

#json_for_autocomplete(items, method, extra_data = []) ⇒ Object

Returns a hash with three keys actually used by the Autocomplete jQuery-ui Can be overriden to show whatever you like Hash also includes a key/value pair for each method in extra_data



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# File 'lib/rails-autocomplete/autocomplete.rb', line 89

def json_for_autocomplete(items, method, extra_data=[])
  items = items.collect do |item|
    hash = HashWithIndifferentAccess.new({"id" => item.id.to_s, "label" => item.send(method), "value" => item.send(method)})
    extra_data.each do |datum|
      hash[datum] = item.send(datum)
    end if extra_data
    # TODO: Come back to remove this if clause when test suite is better
    hash
  end
  if block_given?
    yield(items)
  else
    items
  end
end