X-editable checklist which creates associations with another model

[Stepan Parunashvili]

This gem has been amazing. I'm using x-editable to implement an asynchronous editing form in one of my apps.

In my models I have, CommonApp which has_many Industries.

What I would like to do is to create an x-editable checklist, which will associate the common_app to the industries that the user checks.

So far, I've been able to edit the CommonApp's values, such as cover_letter, like so -

        == editable @common_app, :cover_letter, url: user_common_app_path(@user,@common_app), value: @common_app.cover_letter, defaultValue: "Your cover letter hasn't been filled in yet, click here to fill it out!", type: "textarea"

and

  def update
    @common_app = CommonApp.find(params[:id])
    if @common_app.update_attributes(common_app_params)
       render json: {success: true}
    else
       render json: {errors: @common_app.errors}, status: 400
    end
  end

However, I'm not sure where to begin with creating the checklist. Write now, I wrote -->

== editable @common_app, :industry_ids, url: user_common_app_path(@user,@common_app), type: "checklist"

javascript:
  $(function(){
      $('.editable').editable({
          value: [2, 3],    
          source: [
                {value: 1, text: 'option1'},
                {value: 2, text: 'option2'},
                {value: 3, text: 'option3'}
             ]
      });
  });

But I'm not able to get those values to show up.
What way should I go about this?

[Stepan Parunashvili]

Ah, got it. For anyone who has a similar problem, here's the implementation :

 == editable @common_app, :city_ids, url: user_common_app_path(@user,@common_app), type: "checklist", value: @common_app.cities.map{|city| city.name}, source: City.all.map{ | city | {value: city.id, text: city.name} }

[Jiri Kolarik]

It would be better to create source and value on CommonApp model instead in view, but result is the same.

class CommonApp
  def cities_values
    cities.map{|city| city.name}
  end
  def cities_sources
    self.class.all.map{ | city | {value: city.id, text: city.name} }
  end
end

= editable @common_app, :city_ids, url: user_common_app_path(@user,@common_app), type: "checklist", value: @common_app.cities_values, source: @common_app.cities_sources