[Facebooker-talk] Custom Form Builder Help

[BJ Clark]

Dave,
The other form elements all get it correctly. "school_type, school_nid".
That's what has me so puzzled.

BJ


On Apr 10, 2008, at 2:57 PM, David Clements wrote:

> Ah I see, sorry about that.  I have a bug just like that recently.  
> You sure it is set?  It seems like the nilClass is coming from the  
> form builder looking at the class of @school . Just a guess though.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:52 PM, BJ Clark <bjclark at scidept.com> wrote:
> Dave,
> @schools is my collection of schools which I'm providing to populate  
> the typeahead. @school is just a School.new.
> BJ
>
> On Apr 10, 2008, at 2:44 PM, David Clements wrote:
>> I think @schools should be @school  the form builder is looking for  
>> @school
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:41 PM, BJ Clark <bjclark at scidept.com>  
>> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We use a different custom form builder for our app, but I wanted to
>> use facebooker's typeahead widget in side the other form builder.
>> I don't know much about form builders, but I created a file in lib/
>> doing this:
>>
>> http://pastie.caboo.se/178776
>>
>> It works great, except that the id's and class names get messed up.
>> Instead of school_name, I get nilClass_name.
>> The other methods work fine however.
>>
>> Here's the form:
>> <h1>New School</h1>
>> <%= show_flash %>
>> <% af_form_for :school, :url => schools_path, :html => {:method
>> => :post } do |f| %>
>>        <%= f.typeahead :name, @schools, "name", "name" %>
>>        <div class='label'>School Type</div>
>>        <%= f.radio_button :type, "College", :label => "College/
>> University", :span => 4, :last => true %>
>>        <%= f.radio_button :type, "HighSchool", :label => "High
>> School", :span => 4, :last => true %>
>>        <%= f.hidden_field :nid %>
>>        <%= f.submit "Create School" %>
>> <% end -%>
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone have an idea of what I'm missing here?
>> Thanks,
>> BJ Clark
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