Rails - Jul 2006 - Getting data from the select menu

I am using a select menu to allow people to pick an item and be taken to
a new page containing that item''s data. Pretty straightforward stuff.
Except that I cannot quite figure out how to do this in Rails.

I do not understand how to grab the variable from the select menu.

Any suggestions?

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Hi Ricardo,

Ricardo ricardito
>I am using a select menu to allow people to pick
> an item and be taken to a new page containing that
> item''s data. Pretty straightforward stuff. Except that
> I cannot quite figure out how to do this in Rails.
>
> I do not understand how to grab the variable from the
> select menu.
It comes to the controller action in the params hash when the form''s 
submitted, just like a text_field''s value does.  Nothing special.

hth,
Bill

> I do not understand how to grab the variable from the select menu.
model from this example

<select name = "object[dataField]">
<option selected> PLEASE CHOOSE DATAFIELD
<% @objects.each do |object| %>
<option value = "<%= @object.id %>" >
  <%= @object.dataField %>
</option>
<%end%>
</select>

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