Rails - Jul 2007 - collection_select not selecting item, unless...

I''m fairly new to Rails, so this could just be my stupidity rather than
Rails.

My app has two simple models: record (id, category_id, ...) and
category (id, name). In my generated scaffold _form.html for the
record model, I have the following collection_select:

<%= collection_select ''record'',
''category'', @categories, :id, :name %>

The option tag is properly populated, but the current category for the
record being edited is not selected. However, if I change the above
line to:

<%= collection_select ''record'',
''category_id'', @categories, :id, :name %>

Then it will select the proper category in the HTML form. But, when I
try to save, it fails with an exception (ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
in RecordsController#update => "Couldn''t find Category without
an
ID").

Here''s the edit and update methods from RecordsController:

  def edit
    user = User.find(session[:user_id])
    @record = user.records.find(params[:id])
    @categories = user.categories.find(:all, :order =>
''name'')
  end

  def update
    user = User.find(session[:user_id])
    @record = user.records.find(params[:id])
    # Replace the category id with the actual Category.
    params[:record][:category] user.categories.find(params[:record][:category])
    if @record.update_attributes(params[:record])
      flash[:notice] = ''Record was successfully updated.''
      redirect_to :action => ''show'', :id => @record
    else
      render :action => ''edit''
    end
  end

Any ideas what I''m doing wrong?

Thanks

n

P.S. You can browse all of my marvelous code here:
http://www.bluemarsh.com/hg/topsecret/ => click on "manifest" and
you''ll see the typical Rails app structure.

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If you change your collection select to "category_id", you have to 
change it in your controller too ofcourse, did you do that ?
so params[:record][:category] should be params[:record][:category_id]

Stijn

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Good point, that would address the error. Thanks.

However, the question remains: why do I have to change this to be
different than every single example of collection_select I have found
so far, including the AWDWR book, postings on this list, and the Rails
wiki itself?

Thanks

n

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