Rails - Jan 2006 - radio_button method does not recognize int values?

So the api listing says that radio_button(object, method, tag_value, 
options = {}) gives a radio button tag, and if object.method == 
tag_value, then the button will be checked.

I verified the method behaves correctly for attributes of type string. 
However, if the attribute is of type int, it doesn''t make the button 
checked.

Does anyone have some information before I file a bug?
Some tricks to make it work?

Ezra Nugroho

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Ezra Nugroho wrote:
> 
> So the api listing says that radio_button(object, method, tag_value, 
> options = {}) gives a radio button tag, and if object.method == 
> tag_value, then the button will be checked.
> 
> I verified the method behaves correctly for attributes of type string. 
> However, if the attribute is of type int, it doesn''t make the
button
> checked.
> 
> Does anyone have some information before I file a bug?
> Some tricks to make it work?
> 
> Ezra Nugroho
Ezra,
I ran into the same problem. But i think i''ve found a solution:

I have the following table:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Table: accounts
       id  :integer
       ..
       ..
       foo :integer     (this is the field with value for the radio 
button)

-------------------------------------------------------------------
edit.rhtml

Here i have the following options, for the user to select:

<%= radio_button("account","foo", "1") %>
<%= radio_button("account","foo", "2") %>

-------------------------------------------------------------------
show.rhtml

My show view, shows the data for account with the instance
variable @account, but to make my Radio-buttons work properly
(I want the correct radio button to be selected) I had to do
the following:

<%= radio_button("account","foo","1", :disabled
=> true) %>
<%= radio_button("account","foo","2", :disabled
=> true) %>

After that the show.rhtml showed the Radio Buttons and the
the correct Radio Button will be selected, based on the value
in in the table accounts and attribute foo.

micheldogger




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Plus,

don''t use TINYINT(1) as Datatype in MySQL.
Rails will return the values as True of False.

micheldogger

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Michel Dogger wrote:
> Plus,
>
> don''t use TINYINT(1) as Datatype in MySQL.
> Rails will return the values as True of False.
>
> micheldogger
>
>   
Aha!  Thanks for comfirming that!  I had a lot of trouble figuring that 
one out when I was working through the otherwise-excellent "4 days with 
rails" tutorial!
Cheers
Mohit.

Got it!  Thanks guys!

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