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Will be a nice option :)

http://patshaughnessy.net/2010/2/13/creating-associations-to-existing-data-part-2-belongs_to-with-auto_complete
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once I got to here..
cuzican@CUZIVISTA ~/gitrepo/test
$ script/generate scaffold_for_view employee name:string --view belongs_to_auto_complete:office
warning Model Office does not contain a has_many association for Employee.

cuzican@CUZIVISTA ~/gitrepo/test
$ vi app/models/office.rb

i then added the has_many association.. then i got the below

cuzican@CUZIVISTA ~/gitrepo/test
$ script/generate scaffold_for_view employee name:string --view belongs_to_auto_complete:office
error Class 'office' does not exist or contains a syntax error and could not be loaded.

I tried changing office to Office and then spent all kinds of time trying different variations of the has_many.. plural.. not.. looking at my rails env.. etc.. and I wasted a bit of time because I was too stupid to notice that I was adding the has_many as follows:
has_many employees
when i should have added it as "has_many :employees" .. damn colon..
added that colon and all was well.. since you do such a good job checking for things I figured I should let u know this one so you could add a check in it and save others headaches.. or not.. ;->

p.s. nice work.

See this thread: rubygems/bundler#210 (comment)

I know this is all old and all, but I still have it around.. I'd be willing to help try to fix it if I had some guidance or todos from ya..

I would get this: Couldn't find 'scaffold_for_view' generator

So I tried adding view_mapper to Gemfile and bundle update but then that broke the general script/generate command.. So I left it out of the Gemfile but then it doesn't work when using bundler.
http://gembundler.com/rails23.html