Added in-place editing support in the spirit of auto complete with ActionController::Base.in_place_edit_for, JavascriptHelper#in_place_editor_field, and Javascript support from script.aculo.us #2038 [Jon Tirsen] Moved auto-completion and in-place editing into the Macros module and their helper counterparts into JavaScriptMacrosHelper

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@2191 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

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+module ActionController
+  # Macros are class-level calls that add pre-defined actions to the controller based on the parameters passed in.
+  # Currently, they're used to bridge the JavaScript macros, like autocompletion and in-place editing, with the controller
+  # backing.
+  module Macros
+    module AutoComplete #:nodoc:
+      def self.append_features(base) #:nodoc:
+        super
+        base.extend(ClassMethods)
+      end
+
+      # Example:
+      #
+      #   # Controller
+      #   class BlogController < ApplicationController
+      #     auto_complete_for :post, :title
+      #   end
+      #
+      #   # View
+      #   <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :post, title %>
+      #
+      # By default, auto_complete_for limits the results to 10 entries,
+      # and sorts by the given field.
+      # 
+      # auto_complete_for takes a third parameter, an options hash to
+      # the find method used to search for the records:
+      #
+      #   auto_complete_for :post, :title, :limit => 15, :order => 'created_at DESC'
+      #
+      # For help on defining text input fields with autocompletion, 
+      # see ActionView::Helpers::JavaScriptHelper.
+      #
+      # For more examples, see script.aculo.us:
+      # * http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter
+      # * http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter_customized
+      module ClassMethods
+        def auto_complete_for(object, method, options = {})
+          define_method("auto_complete_for_#{object}_#{method}") do
+            find_options = { 
+              :conditions => [ "LOWER(#{method}) LIKE ?", '%' + params[object][method].downcase + '%' ], 
+              :order => "#{method} ASC",
+              :limit => 10 }.merge!(options)
+            
+            @items = object.to_s.camelize.constantize.find(:all, find_options)
+
+            render :inline => "<%= auto_complete_result @items, '#{method}' %>"
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
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