Rails - Jan 2006 - Collection_select problem

I have my customer object with title attribute
: @customer.title

Where title is "Mr","Mrs", etc....

In edit/create from i have:
 @titles=["Mr","Mrs","Miss"]

how do i create a selection box that sets itself to the value of 
@customer.title??

This doesn''t work:
<%=collection_select(:customer, :title, @titles)%>

Any help would be appreciated,
THanks

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On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 18:30 +0100, Chris wrote:
> I have my customer object with title attribute
> : @customer.title
> 
> Where title is "Mr","Mrs", etc....
> 
> In edit/create from i have:
>  @titles=["Mr","Mrs","Miss"]
> 
> how do i create a selection box that sets itself to the value of 
> @customer.title??
> 
> This doesn''t work:
> <%=collection_select(:customer, :title, @titles)%>
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> THanks
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Agile book suggests something like this in controller

  PAYMENT_TYPES = [
    [ "Check",          "check" ], 
    [ "Credit Card",    "cc"    ],
    [ "Purchase Order", "po"    ]
  ].freeze

and something like this in rhtml

<%= 
     options = [["Select a payment option", ""]] +
Order::PAYMENT_TYPES
     select("order", "pay_type", options) 
   %>

HTH

Craig