Rails - Jul 2006 - displaying select value and debugging RoR application

Folks,

I am running into the following problem.

I have a company model that has_many addresses and address belongs_to
company (it also belongs to a User model but I assume that is irrelevant to
this issue). I am in the list_companies view of the company_controller. When
the user selects a company from the drop down I dynamically update the
cities dropdown for the cities that the selected company has offices in
using an onchange handler and remote_function call. However the problem is
that I can''t seem to get the city names displayed in the modified
dropdown
that comes up - though the number of entries in that are correct. It is
displaying the object ids of Address objects - something like
#<Address:0x395f870>. The select code is as below in a partial

<%= select_tag(*:company_address_city*, options_for_select(*@all_cities)*)
%>

I believe I have to do something with ":*:company_address_city" *to
make the
city name visible but I don''t know what - I have tried all combinations
of
company, address and city (the field name in addresses table) but
doesn''t
seem to work.

Sounds like I am missing something simple and obvious but perhaps I have
been looking at it too long.

On a related note, I am using RadRails which doesn''t currently support
debugging and I have had to debug through log statements which takes a lot
of time. Is there any better tool out there that can help with debugging and
speed up development?

TIA,

Sanjay.
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