#302 In-Place Editing

Thanks Ryan, i have been looking for this. You are the best. How can one use this with tinymce or allow some HTML?

Thanks for the screencast
Does any one know if it can be integrated with simple_form ?
Is theere any easy way to add a submit and cancel buttons instead of hitting enter/esc ?

thanks for the screencast but i think we must use it carefully cause it sends much more request to the server than the usual form.

thanks Ryan, really good as usual.
Do you think it's complicate to replace the text_area
by ck_editor or some like that ?

@gaaady: the on_the_spot gem offers similar functionality, but uses jEditable under the cover, so standard comes with the Ok/Cancel buttons and is form-builder agnostic, so usable from simple_form, formtastic, ...

Hope this helps.

It's impossible to edit a field with a blank value ;) At least in Ryan's Demo. Some styling might help?

Is there any way to make sure that only if logged_in? and post_owner? conditions are satisfied before showing the editing area

Great screencast - great gem. However, there's one big problem with validation. It tells you what you did wrong, but it doesn't show you what you did. It's especially bad with the email example. The field contains a valid email. The user changes it to an invalid email. The valid email is redisplayed with a message saying it's invalid!

I think one of the prime directives of UI should be that if the user makes a mistake, he should be able to edit it, rather than re-enter it.

I can see some uses for this gem, but I would not use it if validation is needed.

Great plugin, great screencast.

Any way to tab through the multiple fields (MS Excel style) and submit once the mouse clicks outside of the fields?

Do you think this can work for "complex forms" or "nested_forms"?

great as usual

how can edit grid data?

i wanna using it to admin panel

This is almost eerie. I was just now Googling around for an in-place edit solution in Rails... and suddenly it shows up as one of the latest Railscasts :). Awesome!

has anyone used this with paperclip or carrierwave for swapping out images on-the-fly?

what else needs to be added for something like this github feature

best_in_place and mongoid are compatible?

Does anyone know how is the red pen implemented?

Is it possible to use best_in_place with decorators (e.g. Draper)? If so, how?

Can somebody give an example of how to use type :date? Is there a way to format the display? I'd like to pick the day/month/year without any time elements. When I use

<%= best_in_place @class_time, :completion_date, type: :date %>

the field is not editable

Hey guys, great cast. It totally works as long I don't use my authentication filter in the controller. That before_filter just checks if session[:user_id] exists (derived from "Authentication from scratch"). It redirects to an info page in the latter case that no user is signed in.

So I am using best_in_place from a signed in state but what happens is that the changes are not propagated and additionally the session seems to be reset since I am logged out then.

Anyone an idea?

this was extremely awesome. now if we can do multiple fields update that would be brilliant. almost reach the same level as those javascript MVC frameworks.

Hi, Sorry Noobee! <8-( In-Line Editing not working! Followed in tutorial to the letter but for Rails 3.0.11 ruby 1.9.2.

On Clicking the text field appears but on pressing tab or enter the data is not edited.

Also I was wandering if this could apply to the index page i.e any other page within the controller for that matter!

Ryan Love Your Casts! You Rock!

Thanks for the awesome tutorial, just got a bit stuck though.

I am up to the stage of amending my show.html.erb, but when I try reloading the page I am getting...

undefined method `movie_title_path' for #<#Class:0xa16fea4:0xa434a2c>

I am using nested resources which gives me the url /movie/movie_titles/6.

Is there something I am missing?

Thanks!!!

I am using devise and I am getting this error. I know it has something to do with devise or authentication tokens. Can anyone give me some advise? Here is my error.
I have put this tag in my layout
<%= csrf_meta_tag %>
Completed 401 Unauthorized

Is there a way to display just the checkbox instead of a word ?

Has anyone run into the problem that best_in_place editing works only once, and to work again one has to refresh the page?

Without refreshing the page, clicking on the field doesn't change it into an input field.

Hi, the application is running well with firefox but not with google chrome. chrome does not recognize when I click on a field.

How can this be used on a create action to keep the user on the same page? Any ideas?

Hi Ryan, Indeed great screencast.

What would be the case if I dont want to specify the gender array in the /users/show.html.erb page as collection: [["Male", "Male"], ["Female", "Female"], ["", "Unspecified"]]

but rather define an array in the gender action inside the user class and reference it on show page?

def gender
['Male', 'Female']
end

and how to call these in the index using best_in_place syntax?

Thanks,

Sometimes after trying to edit a field, best in place rejects the edit. When I try clicking on the same field to edit again, it doesn't let me click until I refresh. Any idea why this happens?

In these cases, no error message flashes. In the cases where the error message does flash, I can re-enter the invalid data as normal. So the two seem to co-occur.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

In addition to that, I also have major problems with the Callbacks. If I use it, the in-place-edit function simply stops working.

I have the following code

<%= bestin_place comment, :description, :type => :textarea,:ok_button => "Save", :cancel_button => "Cancel",:activator => "#edit#{comment.id}" %>
<%= buttontag "Edit" , :id => "edit#{comment.id}" %>

I have multiple of these in my view.

Clicking on the "Edit" button, in my case, the first time does not activate the editing
I have to click on the description text once and then click on the "Edit" button to activate the editing.

I can't get the javascript to load. I mean, the javascript file I see in my code, but then I can't get anything to call the best_in_place thing properly. Everything errors saying it isn't there.

Bashing head into wall. Debugging Javascript is impossible.

Another option is X-editable. It offers similar functionality, but uses Bootstrap/JqueryUI/Jquery elements. Really works fantastic in my Bootstrap UI.

I learn some new stuff from it too, thanks for sharing your information.