Re: collection_select default value?

nas
2007-11-05T09:54:22Z

You have two options for this:
1) <%= collection_select(:user, :id, @users, :id, :login,
{:include_blank => true}) %>  to show a blank option
 OR
2) <%= collection_select(:user, :id, @users, :id, :login, {:promt =>
''Select a user''}) %>  to show a default text

Hope this helps

On Nov 4, 5:13 pm, Gary Huntress
<ghuntr...-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m having some confusion withcollection_select().    I am using
two
> of them on my form:
>
> <%=collection_select(:user, :id, @users, :id, :login) %>
> <%=collection_select(:department, :id, @depts, :id, :name, {},
> :multiple=>"multiple") %>
>
> If I submit the page without selecting a department in the multiselect
> box, I will get a nil object.  This is what I want.
>
> If I submit the page without selecting a user, I do not get a nil user
> object.  It is populated with the first item in the select box.   This
> is not what I want.   I want to detect that a user has not selected a
> name from the list.
>
> Why is the firstcollection_select() returning a value when the user
> has not selected an item?
>
> Thx,
>
> Gary H.


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