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github.com/midas/g_nested_select/tree/master

A Guilded (github.com/midas/guilded/tree/master) Rails component that generates a select box and connects it to a parent select box to facilitate a parent child relationship.

sudo gem install midas-g_nested_select

In rails environment.rb file:

config.gem 'midas-g_nested_select', :version => "1.0.1", :lib => 'g_nested_select', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

Generate:

script/generate nested_select_assets

<% form_for @car do |f| %>
  ...

  <%= f.select :vehicle_make_id, VehicleMake.to_select_collection, :id => 'car_vehicle_make_id' %>

  <%= g_nested_select f, :vehicle_model_id, :mappings => VehicleModel.to_select_collection, :include_blank => true, 
        :parent_id => 'car_vehicle_make_id', :mapping_type => :html 
<% end %>

Where VehicleModel.to_select_collection returns either:

[
  ['Toyota', [['Camry',1],['Corola',2]]], ['Volvo', [['S40',3],['S60',4]]]
]

or

{
  'Toyota' => [['Camry',1],['Corola',2]], 'Volvo' => [['S40',3],['S60',4]]
}

When JavaScript is disabled, the above will result in:

<select id="ticket_vehicle_model_id" name="ticket[vehicle_model_id]">
  <option value=""/>
  <optgroup label="Toyota">
    <option value="1">Camry</option>
    <option value="2">Corola</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Volvo">
    <option value="3">S40</option>
    <option value="4">S60</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

When JavaScript is enabled the vehicle model id select control will be loaded with the vehicle models that are related to what is currently selected in the vehicle make id select box. If there is nothing selected yet, then the vehicle model id select box will be empty and will not populate until the vehicle make is selected.

If you open an edit view and there is already a value selected for both the vehicle make and vehicle model the vehicle model selection will automatically select the correct value once it has loaded the nested options.

• :mappings (required) - A collection suitable for creating a nested drop down (see example usage above for details).

• :include_blank - When true, includes an empty option at top of select box, otherwise does not. Defaults to false.

• :parent_id (required) - The id of the parent select box that the nested select box’s values will be loaded based on.

• :mapping_type - :lookup for JavaScipt to generate the HTML from the lookup object that comes over form the server.

  :html for the server to generate the html server side and send it over.  Defaults to :lookup.

• Rails >= 2.2.0

• Guilded >= 0.2.0 (github.com/midas/guilded/tree/master)

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 C. Jason Harrelson (midas)

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