Rails - Jun 2006 - dropdown

I''m using a dropdown on my form for a simple cms which displays the 
pages from the database.  I want to add some options to the dropdown 
that are not in the database.  Is there a way to do this?

Here''s my code so far:

<p><label
for="navigation_link">Link</label><br/>
<%= select("navigation", "link", Page.find_all.collect
{|p| [ p.title,
p.id ] }) %></p>

What I want is to add in a link called "listings" that is not in the 
table as well as a link called "home".  I''m giving the user
the option
to choose the display order, so it doesn''t matter where they show in
the
dropdown.  However, it would be nice to have it still autoselect the 
appropriate item in the edit form.

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try something like this:
<select>
 <option value="home">Home</option>
<%= option_groups_from_collection_for_select Page.find_all,
''id'',
''title'' %>
</select>

See: 
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M000404
for more details.

Hope that helps,

Steve

Greg Newman wrote:
> I''m using a dropdown on my form for a simple cms which displays
the
> pages from the database.  I want to add some options to the dropdown 
> that are not in the database.  Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Here''s my code so far:
> 
> <p><label
for="navigation_link">Link</label><br/>
> <%= select("navigation", "link",
Page.find_all.collect {|p| [ p.title,
> p.id ] }) %></p>
> 
> What I want is to add in a link called "listings" that is not in
the
> table as well as a link called "home".  I''m giving the
user the option
> to choose the display order, so it doesn''t matter where they show
in the
> dropdown.  However, it would be nice to have it still autoselect the 
> appropriate item in the edit form.

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Worked like a charm.  Thanks Steve!


Stephen Bartholomew wrote:
> try something like this:
> <select>
>  <option value="home">Home</option>
> <%= option_groups_from_collection_for_select Page.find_all,
''id'',
> ''title'' %>
> </select>
> 
> See: 
>
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M000404
> for more details.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Steve

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