Rails - Jan 2006 - Modifying script generated scaffold output Books/Authors

People,

For my little book library db I find the rails script generated stuff
fine for most of my needs but there is one thing I couldn''t figure
out . .

Part of the auto output of app/view/books/edit.rhtml is:

<%= start_form_tag :action => ''update'', :id => @book
%>
  <%= render :partial => ''form'' %>
  <%= submit_tag ''Edit'' %>
<%= end_form_tag %>

but I need to add in:

  <p><b>Author</b>
  <select name="book[author_id]">
   <% @authors.each do |author| %>
       <option value="<%= author.id %>"
         <%= '' selected'' if author.id == @book.author_id
%>>
         <%= author.last_name %>
         <%= author.first_name %>
         <%= author.other_name %>
       </option>
   <% end %>
  </select>

so I can update the author (in the author''s table) if necessary.  If I
insert this code after the first line above it seems to update the
author OK (comment: shouldn''t the button say "Update"?) but
is there
some way to position the author label and field on the page
automatically like the other bookk fields?

Thanks,

Phil.
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>
> Part of the auto output of app/view/books/edit.rhtml is:
>
> <%= start_form_tag :action => ''update'', :id =>
@book %>
>   <%= render :partial => ''form'' %>
>   <%= submit_tag ''Edit'' %>
> <%= end_form_tag %>
>
> but I need to add in:
>
>   <p><b>Author</b>
[...snip...]
>   </select>
this should go into the _form.rthml file wich defines the actual  
fields displayed

Also I found, that I always rewrite _form.rhtml an "hard-code" field  
names etc in order to get the layout I want for my forms.

cu jc

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