Rails - Jan 2006 - collection_select with array as source

I would like to use the collection_select with a simply array as the source
of the collection.

My array looks like this:
STATES = ["Alabama", "Alaska", "Texas"]
and it is stored in my environment.rb

I can''t figure out the syntax for the collection_select in this
situation...

collection_select("my_object", "state", what goes here??? )

I just need the state name to go on both the value and the label field of
each <option>

I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks,
Shelby
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Consider putting something like this in either application_helper.rb or 
one of your specific controllers. I believe the code can be improved a 
bit by replaicing the escaped strings with %() delimiters.

Note that I add "make a selection" to the top of my drop-downs and
sort
alphabetically.

Hope this helps.

    def select_from_hash(object, name, arg, selected = nil)
        raise "list of ''#{name}'' is nil" if arg.nil?
        select_name = "<select name=\"#{object}[#{name}]\" 
id=\"#{object}[#{name}]\">".freeze
        case arg
        when Array
          arg.unshift(''-- make a selection --'')
          select_name + options_for_select(arg.sort{|k,v| k[1] <=> 
v[1]}, selected) + "</select>"
        when Hash
          arg["-- make a selection --"] = ''0''
          select_name + options_for_select(arg.sort, selected) + 
"</select>"
        end
    end

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Shelby Westman wrote:
> My array looks like this:
> STATES = ["Alabama", "Alaska", "Texas"]
> and it is stored in my environment.rb
> 
try this...

<%= select "my_object","state", STATES,
{:prompt=>"Select State"} %>

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