Global Autocomplete Search Discussion

Awesome episode Chris! Thanks!

Great tut!

What if I want to put a thumb near the text?

Thanks!

this is gold

Hey Chris Awesome Tutorial.
Can you do an Instagram like app tutorial with features like geolocation,tagging user in an image and hashtags

Chris thank you for this video, super helpful! I get a strange error though when following you at the end. In my navbar page - "undefined method `form_with' for #<#<class:0x007f875a6f8b58>:0x007f87600e0aa8>" I decided to hack away and switch form_with for form_tag but then I get an error on the line immediately below "undefined method `text_field' for nil:NilClass" I double checked my code and don't know what could be causing it. Any help would be amazing sir thanks :)
Github: https://github.com/OmarZV/s...

SHouldn't jquery and all dependencies be in /vendor/assets/javascripts folder? Just asking.. I thouhgt that is the 'recommended way'..

For anyone on Rails <5.1, this example code for `form_tag` can be used to replace `form_with`:

<%= form_tag('/search', local: true, method: :get, class: 'form-inline' ) do %>
<%= text_field_tag(:q, nil, data: { behavior: 'autocomplete' }, placeholder: 'Search', class: 'form-control mr-sm-2') %>
<%= button_tag('Search', class: 'btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0', type: 'submit') %>
<% end %>

or more readable as GitHub gist: https://gist.github.com/spe...

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this it has really helped me!

Does anyone know the best way to search multiple columns from model?

Something like : Search Movies by name and date and genre.

Any pointers would be appreciated!

Dan

Hi Chris, I'm trying to get my search form back to mobile responsive.
data: { behavior: "autocomplete" } in the form triggers easy-autocomplete functionality. But the search form/layout becomes mobile unresponsive when I add "data: { behavior: "autocomplete" } " Please do you know how I can fix this in the easy-autocomplete css file?

<%= form_with url: search_path, local: true, method: :get, :class => "" do |form| %>
<div class="input-group m-b-20">
<%= form.text_field :q, placeholder: "Search and select or hit enter", data: { behavior: "autocomplete" }, class: "form-control input-lg" %>

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg"></button> </div>

<% end %>

if you're not using turbolinks (which i'm not), replace search.js with:

window.addEventListener("load", function() {
$input = $("[data-behavior='autocomplete']")

var options = {
getValue: "title",
url: function(phrase) {
return "/search.json?q=" + phrase;
},
categories: [
{
listLocation: "movies",
header: "Movies",
},
{
listLocation: "directors",
header: "Directors",
}
],
list: {
onChooseEvent: function() {
var url = $input.getSelectedItemData().url
$input.val("")
window.location = (url)
}
}
}

$input.easyAutocomplete(options)
});

Hi everyone! please i get this error "undefined method `ransack' for #<class:0x1135dad8>".

When I try to use .easyAutocomplete from console I get this error:

TypeError: $('input').easyAutocomplete is not a function. (In '$('input').easyAutocomplete(options)', '$('input').easyAutocomplete' is undefined)

And I get this as well that call css.map ????

http://localhost:3000/assets/easy-autocomplete.themes.cs... Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

http://localhost:3000/assets/easy-autocomplete.css.map. Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

I follow this tutorial but I get these error... Thank you very much if someone know how solve it!

render json: {users: [], events: [], entreprises: []}

MainController#search is missing a template for this request format and variant. request.formats: ["application/json"] request.variant: []

Thank you for the tutorial.

I get all of this to work until the final part of hooking it to the form field (I am using Bootstrap for forms).

I use the name "databehavior" rather than "data-behavior".
When I enter the field on the form I get autocomplete suggestions but they are from other inputs unrleated to the app. It seems that the search.js code is not being executed.

Any ideas?

Here is the form input code:
<%= form_with url: search_path, local: true, method: :get, html: {class: "form-inline my-2 my-lg-0" } do |form| %>
<%= form.text_field :q, placeholder: "College", data: { behavior: "autocomplete" },
databehavior: "autocomplete", class: "form-control mr-sm-2"%>
<% end %>

Here is the search.js code:
document.addEventListener("turbolinks:load", function() {
$input =$("[databehavior='autocomplete']")

var options = {
getValue: "name",
url: function(phrase) {
return "/search.json?q=" + phrase;
},
categories: [
{
listlocation: "users",
header: "Users",
}
]
}

$input.easyAutocomplete(options)
});

I am getting an error when I run the finished code: search.js:31 Uncaught TypeError: $input.easyAutocomplete is not a function

However, when I put create an options variable directly in the console and run:
$input = $("[data-behavior='autocomplete']")
and then
$input.easyAutocomplete(options)

it works fine. Any idea why I am able to run easyAutocomplete directly in the console but not in the normal course of my app? Here is my application.js file:

// Rails functionality
window.Rails = require("@rails/ujs")
require("turbolinks").start()
require("@rails/activestorage").start()
require("channels")
require("trix")
require("@rails/actiontext")

require("jquery")
require("easy-autocomplete")

require("custom/show")
require("custom/search")

// Tailwind CSS
import "stylesheets/application"

// Stimulus controllers
import "controllers"

// Jumpstart Pro & other Functionality
import "src/actiontext"
import "src/confirm"
import "src/direct_uploads"
import "src/forms"
import "src/timezone"
import "src/tooltips"

import LocalTime from "local-time"
LocalTime.start()

// ADD YOUR JAVACSRIPT HERE

// Start Rails UJS
Rails.start()

Any ideas on this? Thanks!

Nice

Is anyone else getting the following error when trying to search for a 2nd time?

TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'EasyAutocomplete.getHandle(b).getSelectedItemData')