Rails - Mar 2006 - noob question about find()??

could anyone tell me why this doesn''t work???


<%= select(:schedule, :employee_name, Employee.find(:all, :order => 
''last_name ASC'').collect {|p| [p.first_name, p.last_name] }, {
:include_blank => ''true'' })  %></p>


i mean it works half way, only the first name is displayed..
i''ve been at it for a while now.. the answer is probably right in front
of my face....

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On 3/14/06, Jon Mr <jon.druse@gmail.com> wrote:
> could anyone tell me why this doesn''t work???
>
>
> <%= select(:schedule, :employee_name, Employee.find(:all, :order =>
> ''last_name ASC'').collect {|p| [p.first_name, p.last_name]
}, {
> :include_blank => ''true'' })  %></p>
>
>
> i mean it works half way, only the first name is displayed..
> i''ve been at it for a while now.. the answer is probably right in
front
> of my face....
The array that you''re generating  [p.first_name, p.last_name] means
that you want first_name to display and last_name to be used as the
"id" which probably isn''t what you want.

Maybe:  [p.first_name + " " +  p.last_name, p.id]

I''d also move most of this to helper methods, to clean this up.

-- James

hey thanks! that''s what i needed



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