From 056ef2b5b64b9a95a6cb3fa8a075cf7181ecdab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Devin Howard <devin@callysto.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:54:00 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] smoother synapse creation with clicks/tabs

---
 app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.js.erb | 16 +++++++++++-----
 app/controllers/synapses_controller.rb     |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.js.erb b/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.js.erb
index 3f0e0ae3..fb636f11 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.js.erb
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.js.erb
@@ -736,10 +736,6 @@ Metamaps.Create = {
         init: function () {
             var self = Metamaps.Create.newSynapse;
 
-            $('#synapse_desc').keyup(function () {
-                Metamaps.Create.newSynapse.description = $(this).val();
-            });
-
             var synapseBloodhound = new Bloodhound({
                 datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace('value'),
                 queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace,
@@ -795,6 +791,16 @@ Metamaps.Create = {
                 }]
           );
 
+            $('#synapse_desc').keyup(function () {
+              Metamaps.Create.newSynapse.description = $(this).val();
+            });
+
+            $('#synapse_desc').focusout(function() {
+              // Metamaps.Create.newSynapse.description = $(this).val();
+              Metamaps.Synapse.createSynapseLocally();
+            });
+
+
             $('#synapse_desc').bind('typeahead:select', function (event, datum, dataset) {
                 if (datum.id) { // if they clicked on an existing synapse get it
                     Metamaps.Synapse.getSynapseFromAutocomplete(datum.id);
@@ -811,7 +817,7 @@ Metamaps.Create = {
         topic2id: null,
         newSynapseId: null,
         open: function () {
-            $('#new_synapse').fadeIn('fast', function () {
+            $('#new_synapse').fadeIn(100, function () {
                 $('#synapse_desc').focus();
             });
             Metamaps.Create.newSynapse.beingCreated = true;
diff --git a/app/controllers/synapses_controller.rb b/app/controllers/synapses_controller.rb
index 2c3c08d0..f19dc053 100644
--- a/app/controllers/synapses_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/synapses_controller.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class SynapsesController < ApplicationController
   # POST /synapses.json
   def create
     @synapse = Synapse.new(synapse_params)
-    @synapse.update_attribute :desc, "" if @synapse.desc.nil?
+    @synapse.desc = "" if @synapse.desc.nil?
 
     respond_to do |format|
       if @synapse.save
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class SynapsesController < ApplicationController
   # PUT /synapses/1.json
   def update
     @synapse = Synapse.find(params[:id])
-    @synapse.update_attribute :desc, "" if @synapse.desc.nil?
+    @synapse.desc = "" if @synapse.desc.nil?
 
     respond_to do |format|
       if @synapse.update_attributes(synapse_params)