Rails - Nov 2006 - populating select boxes, view or controller?

Over the past few days I''ve seen a number of examples posted here
where people are populating their select boxes in the view; that is:

<% options = Model.find(:all, ...).map{|m| [m.name, m.id]} -%>
<%= select(:object, :attribute, options, ... %>



Is this the preferred way of doing this?  I''ve generally done this in
my controller, where I can catch exceptions and such, but the
preponderance of this way makes me think I''m doing something out of
the ordinary.

Thoughts welcome.

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