I am trying to use a slect box in my form, but I am stuck with an error I cannot understand... here is what I wrote according to the documentation ... <%= f.select ("property", "user_id", User.find_all.collect {|u| [ u.name u.id ] }, { :include_blank => true }) %> user_id is a FK to a user (owner of the property) Associations : User has_many properties, Property belongs_to User when a property is selected, @property.user_id => 9 should display a selection list of all Users, with this one selected..... but I get an error trying to display the form : Showing app/views/property/_innerform.rhtml where line #15 (see above) raised: undefined method `merge'' for <Array:0x25024d0> seems to indicates something is wrong with the collection... ? it''s quite a copy/paste from doc.... kad -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.