Rails - Jul 2008 - selected attribute in options_for_select

Hello Everyone

I have a select_tag which I populate using a map, I use
options_for_select method to pass the map and "selected" value. For
some
reason I can not get the option "selected" based on the value I pass
to
the selected attribute. Here is the code

<%= select_tag :current_course,
         options_for_select( Course.find(:all).map {|p| [p.title,p.id]},
@selected )
%>

The corresponding HTML produced is

<select id="current_course" name="current_course" >
  <option value="1">Mathematics I</option>
  <option value="2">Engineering Design</option>
  <option value="3">Technical Writing</option>
</select>

When I printed the value of @selected variable, it is either 1,2 or 3.
But I never get any option selected.

Interestingly if instead of passing @selected, I pass 1, 2 or 3 as in
the code below

<%= select_tag :current_course,
         options_for_select( Course.find(:all).map {|p| [p.title,p.id]},
2 )
%>

I DO GET 2nd option selected.

I am wondering, if I am doing anything wrong passing a variable as
"selected" attributed in options_for_select method.

Any help or suggestions would really be appreciated.

Thanks
- AJ
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Jeff Emminger wrote:
> likely @selected is a different type than p.id, i.e. not an int.
> 
> try
> 
> <%= select_tag :current_course,
>          options_for_select( Course.find(:all).map {|p|
> [p.title,p.id]},
> @selected.to_i )
> %>
> 
> 
> On Jul 20, 6:25�pm, Abhishek Jain <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

to_i did work.

Thanks guys

-AJ
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