Aplogies for posting a question which I think must be trivial but I can not find the answer anywhere! I have posted this to the ActiveScaffold forum but there seems to be very little activity there, hopefully there is someone here willing to help ? I have two tables, Item and Category. Item belongs_to Category which has_many Items. I am trying to code up an Item form where one of the fields allows selection of a category. My ItemController looks like this: class ItemController < ApplicationController active_scaffold :item do |config| columns[:category].ui_type = :select end end which makes the "category" field appear as a drop-down list. My ItemHelper looks like this: module ItemHelper def category_column(record) if record.category.nil? "" else record.category.summary end end def category_form_column(record,input_name) options = Category.find(:all).collect do |c| [ c.summary, c.id ] end select :record, :category, options, {:include_blank => false, :prefix => input_name} end end The category_form_column helper makes the correct category names appear in the drop down. The form is correctly rendered but when I commit, the record shows a nil category_id and a nil @category. What am I missing ? I''ve looked everywhere for an example but can''t find one. I think an ActiveScaffold tutorial on this would be useful. Thanks for any help... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---