How do you get the Ruby on Rails generated id of a form element for reference in JavaScript?

Question

When using the form_for helper and a text_field call, Ruby on Rails will generate a unique id for the element that it outp

Answer 1

I don't really like my own solution that much, but I tried not to go and patch InstanceTag.

Unfortunately that meant lifting the sanitization code from ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTagMethods

class MyCoolFormBuilder < ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder
    def sanitized_object_name
      @sanitized_object_name ||= object_name.gsub(/\]\[|[^-a-zA-Z0-9:.]/, "_").sub(/_$/, "")
    end

    def field_id_for(method)
      "#{sanitized_object_name}_#{method.to_s.sub(/\?$/,"")}"
    end
end