I want a text input to select the given options in my rails form.
f.collection_select(:user_id, User.all, :id, :name)
is the closest to what I want, but there are too many users to show as a dropdown.
I've tried rails-jquery-autocomplete, and I've written ajax to insert search results to the view before, but it all seems too much and verbose in 2019 just to convert a select box to a text input. If there is a best practice for filtering the given object collection in a rails form, I would like to know. Thank you.
I guess chosen js library might be a good option to consider and there is also a rails wrapper gem available for this ( https://github.com/tsechingho/chosen-rails )
Include the gem in your gemfile and run bundle install
gem 'chosen-rails'
Include the following to application.js
//= require chosen-jquery
Include the following to application.scss
*= require chosen
Example usage:
Once the setup is complete you can use it as follows
<%= select_tag :users, options_for_select(User.all),class:"form-
control",multiple:true id:chosen-select" %>
And initialise it in java script as follows
$('#chosen-select').chosen();
You can refer to various options library provides in their official page ( https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/ ) and customise it to your use case.
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