Example: # Controller class BlogController < ApplicationController auto_complete_for :post, :title end # View <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :post, title %> By default, auto_complete_for limits the results to 10 entries, and sorts by the given field. auto_complete_for takes a third parameter, an options hash to the find method used to search for the records: auto_complete_for :post, :title, :limit => 15, :order => 'created_at DESC' For more examples, see script.aculo.us: * http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter * http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter_customized Copyright (c) 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license