I figured this out, just in case anyone else has the same problem. The issue revolves around brackets [ ] not being allowed in css class names.
The plugin takes the name of the field and uses it to generate a class name of the form "star_group_yourfieldnamehere" so with a rails form field, you'd end up with a class name like: star_group_mymodel[myfield] which is an illegal css class name. I fixed this by changing the following code: var n = this.name; to this: var n = this.name.replace(/^(.*?)\[(.*?)\]$/, "$1_$2"); var real_n = this.name; this removes the brackets and makes rails form names appear like mymodel_myfield instead of mymodel[myfield]. I defined real_n so that it can still be used for the hidden field. Works like a charm now! On Jul 9, 9:58 am, JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I'm trying to use the excellent star rating plugin from fyneworks > (http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating) with a rails project I'm > working on. I'm running into a bit of an issue that I wonder if > anyone else has seen. > > Typical names of form fields in a rails app look something like this: > > mymodel[myfield] > > which I suspect is causing an issue with this plugin. If I leave the > form as generated by rails, with names like above, then the mouseout > and click events don't behave properly. mouseout doesn't remove the > stars the way it should, and clicking on a star only highlights the > star you clicked on, instead of all the stars before it also. > > If I manually hack the form names to be regular names, like "myfield" > instead of "mymodel[myfield]" then it works perfectly, but of course > then rails won't process my form correctly because the names aren't > right. > > Has anyone else run into this kind of problem? Any solutions anyone > can think of? I tried going through the plugin code, but I'm afraid > my jQuery-fu isn't where it needs to be to spot the problem. > > Any help is greatly appreciated.....thanks!
