Rails - Jan 2006 - Options_from_collection_for_select -> Multiple fields in display

The following code shows a list of
the users, with username being each person''s initials (mine would be
DM).

<%= options_from_collection_for_select
@users,"id","username" %>

However, I''d like to have the display of the SELECT box be "DM -
Dylan
Markow" instead of "DM." Is this possible using
options_from_collection_for_select, or will I need to manually loop
through the entries myself?

Thanks!


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Dylan - I asked this question recently and Mark JAmes answered;
Eric Sloane wrote:

 > How do you concatenate a first_name, last_name as the text method for 
OFCFS? Damned if I can do it without error. Is it in the original select 
for the collection?


Define an instance method in the model that returns first_name + last_name
and use that as the text method in ofcfs.

And that works fine.
Cheers,
Eric.


Dylan Markow wrote:
> The following code shows a list of the users, with username being each 
> person''s initials (mine would be DM).
> 
> <%= options_from_collection_for_select
@users,"id","username" %>
> 
> However, I''d like to have the display of the SELECT box be
"DM - Dylan
> Markow" instead of "DM." Is this possible using 
> options_from_collection_for_select, or will I need to manually loop 
> through the entries myself?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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