Rails - Dec 2005 - validation highlighting on non-scaffold fields

Hi all,

I''m new to rails.

I have created a bunch of CRUD code using scaffolds.
I had to add code to the default output to account for
fields that establish the relationships between tables.

Everything works well, including the validation of the
fields I added.  However, I can''t get the highlighting
to work for my fields when they fail validation and the
view is redisplayed.

Here is an example snippet from _form.rhtml:

<!--[form:account]-->
<p><label
for="account_number">Number</label><br/>
<%= text_field ''account'', ''number''  %>
<br>
<label for="broker_id">Broker</label><br/>
<select id="broker_id" name="broker_id">
	<option value="0">Choose</option>
    <% for broker in @brokers %>
	<option
value="<%=broker.id%>"><%=broker.name%></option>
    <% end %>
</select>
</p>
<!--[eoform:account]-->

I think if I used the select helper it would work, but I
can''t think of a way to inject my "fake" row of "0,
Choose"
as a Broker that forces the user to pick a value from the
dropdown (he legit values are all in the @brokers list).

Any ideas?

-Shane

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Shane Bouslough wrote:
> I think if I used the select helper it would work, but I
> can''t think of a way to inject my "fake" row of "0,
Choose"
> as a Broker that forces the user to pick a value from the
> dropdown (he legit values are all in the @brokers list).
> 
> Any ideas?
>From the rails docs for the select helper..
:prompt - set to true or a prompt string. When the select element 
doesn’t have a value yet, this prepends an option with a generic prompt 
— "Please select" — or the given prompt string.

_Kevin

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Kevin Olbrich wrote:
> :prompt - set to true or a prompt string. When the select element 
> doesn’t have a value yet, this prepends an option with a generic prompt 
> — "Please select" — or the given prompt string.
That cleans up my code a lot, thanks.   I also had an invalid
call to errors.ad() which was keeping my field from being
highlighted.

-Shane

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