Wraps the jQuery Autocomplete library in a rails engine so that it can be used by the asset pipeline. This gem includes the non-minified source code which the asset pipeline will minify in production. It also includes a default CSS.

Add the following to your gem file

gem 'jquery_autocomplete_rails'

Add the JS to your application.js or similar location

//= require jquery.autocomplete

Add the CSS to your application.css or create your own version

/*
 *= require jquery.autocomplete
 */

Html:

<input type="text" name="country" data-autocomplete="true"/>

Ajax lookup:

$('[data-autocomplete="true"]').autocomplete({
    serviceUrl: '/autocomplete/countries'
});

Local lookup (no ajax):

var countries = [
   { value: 'Andorra', data: 'AD' },
   // ...
   { value: 'Zimbabwe', data: 'ZZ' }
];

$('[data-autocomplete="true"]').autocomplete({
    lookup: countries
});

For a full list of options check the API.

This gem's version will match the jQuery Autocomplete libraries version. If a gem specific update is needed then we will add a 4th number of the version to indicate that the update was in the gem.

• gem 1.2.9 = library 1.2.9
• gem 1.3.0 = libary 1.3.0
• gem 1.3.0.1 = library 1.3.0 (but the gem needed to be updated)