Rails - Apr 2008 - The name/id of the select tag generated by rails

Hi guys,

I just recently fell in love with Rails. Now, I''m trying to make a
simple page where at list of tasks is presented. Each task has a user.

At the top of the list I want to be able to make a select/dropdown list
containing all users, so that will be able to select all tasks for a
certain user.

Looking at the Rails api I find the helper method: collection_select.
Just what I need!

There is just one problem. I want to select-tag to be named "user_id".
However, according to the documentation you must specify a "object"
and
a "method".

For example:
<%= collection_select ''test'', ''boing'',
@users, ''id'', ''name'' %>
Outputs:
<select id="test_boing" name="test[boing]">
  <option value="1">Rasmus</option>
  <option value="2">Dennis</option>
</select>

This just doesn''t make any sense to. How come I can''t set the
name of
the select tag to for example ''user_id'' so that the path when
search
will be ''/tasks?user_id=1'' instead of
''/tasks?test%5Bboing%5D=2''.

Am I taking a "non-rails approach" to this problem? How can I set the
name of the select-tag to "user_id"?
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I achieved the wanted result like this:
<%= select_tag ''user_id'', options_for_select(@users.collect
{ |u|
[u.name, u.id] }) %>

However, I guess you''ll agree it''s not the most beautiful code
ever
written. Any suggestions for improvement?

Thanks in advance.
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Rasmus Nielsen wrote:
> I achieved the wanted result like this:
> <%= select_tag ''user_id'',
options_for_select(@users.collect { |u|
> [u.name, u.id] }) %>
> 
> However, I guess you''ll agree it''s not the most beautiful
code ever
> written. Any suggestions for improvement?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
You might try options_from_collection_for_select:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html
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