Hi group, starting up with rails, coming from the perl world I was confused about some of the concepts behind rails. What I wonder most at the moment is the follwoing : I created a rails project, creates the databases and a table looking like so : drop table if exists bla; create table client( id int not null auto_increment, name varchar(40) not null, flag boolean not null, primary key(id) ); ... after that I creates my first scaffold and a controller named Admin script/generate scaffold Client Admin. I exspected a new/edit mask like that : a textfield for the name a checkbox for the bool flag but I was disapointed, I found a select with the options true and false. Since I''d like to create something like a licensing application I need to create licenses where there need to be set 128 Boolean flags. This could easily be done using checkboxes but becomes the horror using selects. So I dropped down the select fiel by hand and created a checkbox on my own. It took hours(!!!) to get the right formatted list of arguments till it worked. Meanwhile I was confused by : ri checkbox .... did not find anything when issuing ri check_box And even after a ./gem_server redirecting my browser to localhost:8808 I did not find any sentence about checkboxes. Ok, so far, I got it. But if I create my real world applicaion now I''d need to set all 128 checkboxes by hand, and this is something I dont understand. Booleans - in my opinion - are greatfully predestinated to be mapped on checkboxes, why does''nt rails act that way? Can I change rails behaviour or is there any other way to map a checked/unchecked checkbox as true/false 1/0 in my table? The second question I have is, is there any easier way to find documentation for inbuild calls? Greets Jason Nerer support[ at ]esiqia.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---