Archive for October, 2008

Local autocomplete with Rails, Prototype, and script.aculo.us

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Server vs. Client First of all, I think server-based autocompletion is great. The _with_auto_complete plugin is solid, and I've used it in several projects. But there are some times when I just prefer to have the autocompletion run locally in the browser, usually to avoid a superfluous server-call. ...