Rails - Apr 2006 - drop down menu - getting @params[:id] value.

I am looking to get my option drop down list to populate from a model. 
In my controller i''m using:

@roles = Role.find(:all, :order => "name")

in my view I have:
<%= collection_select(:id, :name, @roles, :id, :name) %> role <%= 
submit_tag("Go") %>

I cannot get just the id of the selected option. If i inspect the params 
I get:

{"commit"=>"Go",
"action"=>"view_role_rights",
"id"=>{"name"=>"1"},
"controller"=>"accounts"}

What is going on there? can anyone help?



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James Whittaker wrote:
> I am looking to get my option drop down list to populate from a model.
> In my controller i''m using:
> 
> @roles = Role.find(:all, :order => "name")
> 
> in my view I have:
> <%= collection_select(:id, :name, @roles, :id, :name) %> role
<%> submit_tag("Go") %>
> 
> I cannot get just the id of the selected option. If i inspect the params
> I get:
> 
> {"commit"=>"Go",
"action"=>"view_role_rights",
"id"=>{"name"=>"1"},
> "controller"=>"accounts"}
> 
> What is going on there? can anyone help?
I''m somewhat confused why you are supplying :id and :name as first two
arguments. They should be the ActiveRecord::Base object and the method, for
instantace, "post" and "author_id". I''m guessing
your roles are for users,
so you''d need something like "user" and "role_id".