Search starts after typing two characters

[Diego Gaitán]

Is it possible to start the search after typing one character only? No request is sent to the server when I type the first character.

Thanks in advance.

[Rajveer Shekhawat]

https://github.com/crowdint/rails3-jquery-autocomplete/tree/master/lib/assets/javascripts

You can locate the above mentioned java script files of gem in your local and change the value manually.

Just open the files and find "2". You will see code like.

if ( term.length < 2 ) {
return false;
}

Replace "2" with your desired length. Don't forget to restart server.

[Mauricio Pasquier Juan]

There's an open PR (#169) with this functionality from 8 months ago. I hope merge someday..

[Charles De Groote]

No chance to see this feature in the options attribute ?

[frederico]

@charlesdg follow this pull request #169

[Aamir Nazir]

Please add following attribute on element.
'min-length' => 1
or any value you want it to be. Here search starts after 1 character.