select-sync's Introduction

select-sync

select-sync is a plugin to synchronize selects by selected or disabled options. Works great for many selects which are for an array or multiple selects for one value.

Requires a DOM library such as jQuery, Zepto, or any other $ library.

Install

Yarn, NPM, or Bower

yarn add select-sync

npm install select-sync

bower install select-sync

Rails Install

# Gemfile
source 'https://rails-assets.org' do
  gem 'rails-assets-select-sync'
end


# app/assets/javascripts/application.js
/*
 *= require select-sync
*/

Usage

$("select[name='myArray[]']").selectSync('disableSelected', {
  alwaysDisabledValues: [], // if you have some option values that should always stay disabled
  beforeSync: function(selects){
    // do something if you want to 
  },
  afterSync: function(selects){
    $(selects).trigger('chosen:updated');
  }
});

$("select[name='myArray[]']").selectSync('selected', {
  beforeSync: function(selects){
    // do something if you want to 
  },
  afterSync: function(selects){
    $(selects).trigger('chosen:updated');
  }
});

// Remove select sync
$('select[data-sync-disable-selected]').selectSync('disableSelected', 'destroy');
$('select[data-sync-selected]').selectSync('selected', 'destroy');


$('#add').click(function(){
  // add new selects

  //reinitialize sync to include new selects
  $("select[name='myArray[]']").selectSync('disableSelected', {
    alwaysDisabledValues: [], // if you have some option values that should always stay disabled
    beforeSync: function(selects){
      // do something if you want to 
    },
    afterSync: function(selects){
      $(selects).trigger('chosen:updated');
    }
  });
});

Limitations

Currently can only have one sync per type per select.
Doesnt work for multi-selects. They try to solve the same issue as this plugin. I would try using a chosen multi-select before resorting to using this plugin.