Install

Updated Jul 10, 2008 by cainlevy
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Install

Installing and setting up RecordSelect in your own Rails application.

PREPARING

Install Paginator

sudo gem install paginator

Make sure you are including Prototype from your layout:

<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

Download from GitHub and unzip into vendor/plugins.
Then add the CSS and JavaScript to your layout by including the following line:

<%= record_select_includes %>

Enable and configure it on a controller.

class UsersController < ApplicationController
record_select :per_page => 5, :search_on => 'username'
end

Optional: to use RecordSelect RESTfully, add the following to your routes.rb:

map.resources :model_id, :collection => {:browse => :get}, :member => {:select => :post}

Now go ahead and use it somewhere.

Comment by wilter, Mar 01, 2008

I installed the plugin, and it really works excellent.

Just for the newbies, like me, would be nice to add some comments to the Install documentation.

1.Add: you must add "require 'paginator'" at the end of config/environment.rb

2.Add: you must also include <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> in application.rhtml or in the <controller>.html.erb

4. :model_id is just a "placeholder", really you must add the real model name in router.rb, example: map.resources :users, :collection => {:broswe.......etc AND you MUST add it BEFORE others map.resources (i believe)

Finally, dear friends nuwbies, if everythings goes wrong, read the demo application sources: http://code.google.com/p/recordselect/source/browse/demo

Thanks Lance, excellent job, as always.

Wilter.

Comment by cainlevy, Mar 03, 2008

Thanks Wilter, I'll merge some of that into the wiki's page.