Rails - Oct 2005 - Re: collection_select question about selected_value

Paul Welty wrote:
> collection_select(:client, :company_id, @companies, :id, :name, {
> :selected_value => 2 , :prompt => "Please select a
company..." })
> 
> Returns a functioning SELECT element, but it won¹t select the second item.
> (BTW, using the selected_value as a string doesn¹t work either)
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this impossible?
> 
> If impossible, any ideas on what other method might get me the
> auto-error-highlighting I want?
select( :client, :company_id,
         options_from_collection_for_select(@companies, :id, :name,
selected_value=2),
         :prompt => "Please select a company..." )

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Thanks, Mark. This seems close. Well, it returns the correct SELECTS but
escaped (twice, actually) within the HTML. So, I get...

<select id="client_company_id"
name="client[company_id]">

<option value="">Please select a company...</option>

<option value="&lt;option value=&quot;1&quot;
selected=&quot;selected&quot;&gt;Company X&lt;/option&gt;
">&lt;option value=&quot;1&quot;
selected=&quot;selected&quot;&gt;Company
X&lt;/option&gt;</option>

<option value="&lt;option value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Company
Y&lt;/option&gt;">&lt;option
value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;CompanyY&lt;/option&gt;</option>

</select>

Can the options_from_collection_for_select really exist with the select?



On 10/26/05 10:46 AM, "Mark Reginald James"
<mrj-bzGI/hKkdgQnC9Muvcwxkw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Paul Welty wrote:
> 
>> collection_select(:client, :company_id, @companies, :id, :name, {
>> :selected_value => 2 , :prompt => "Please select a
company..." })
>> 
>> Returns a functioning SELECT element, but it won¹t select the second
item.
>> (BTW, using the selected_value as a string doesn¹t work either)
>> 
>> Am I doing something wrong, or is this impossible?
>> 
>> If impossible, any ideas on what other method might get me the
>> auto-error-highlighting I want?
> 
> select( :client, :company_id,
>          options_from_collection_for_select(@companies, :id, :name,
> selected_value=2),
>          :prompt => "Please select a company..." )