Scoping the results for rails3 jquery autocomplete plugin

Question

I\'m using https://github.com/crowdint/rails3-jquery-autocomplete and it seems to be working. The only problem is lets say I have a field performing an autocomplete on all p

Answer 1

You can override get_autocomplete_items, but first use super to call the original get_autocomplete_items method, and then filter the results by current_user.id (or post.user.id if the owner of the post is not the current user)

 def get_autocomplete_items(parameters)
    items = super(parameters)
    items = items.where(:user_id => current_user.id)
  end

This way you can still all the other options that come with the gem. This should be done in your controller by the way.

Another answer suggested the :scope option. I looked into that, but it is not the way to go in this case, you don't want to add "current_user" and things like that to your models.