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Created September 11, 2011 13:41
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Initializing a jQuery UI autocomplete with data from a Rails array
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<script type="text/javascript">
// Trying to help @gedankenstuecke here. A bit hard because I don’t speak Rails (neither Ruby) and can’t try live what the output looks like.
$(function () {
$("#<%=p.object.phenotype_id.to_json%>").autocomplete({
source: <%=Phenotype.find_by_id(p.object.phenotype_id).known_phenotypes.to_json%>
});
});
</script>
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scy commented Sep 11, 2011

Okay, this will still escape the source JSON string according to HTML rules, leading to &quot; in the JavaScript, which is wrong. But I don’t know how to fix that, I’m not a Rails guy.

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