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I must be missing something when it comes to the parameter differences between form FormOptionsHelper select and FormTagHelper select_tag. Code that follows, works perfectly - <%= f.select :unit, units_to_select(@product), :size=>"20"%> The following code, does not. The helper function never even seems to be called. <%= select_tag "unit", units_to_select(@produ...

All, I know that it is _wrong_ for me to do it, but I would like to know what is the easiest way for me to call the select() method in ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper from within a controller? Thanks, Wes -- 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 rubyonra...

Hi! I have problems to see existing values in several FormOptionsHelpers.. (text_area or select for example): <% @models.each do |model| %> <% form_for "model", model, :url => { :action => :update } do |f| %> <%= f.text_field :name %> // works <%= text_area "model", "text" %> // doesn''t w...

I''m looking for a way to select a default value from a select box, like this: select("user", "role_id", Role.find_all.collect {|r| [ r.name, r.id ] }, { :default_value => ''5'' } (of course, there is no ":default_value") If the form is being used on a ''create'' page, it should display a default in the select box. If

Hi, I''m just starting with Rails and i''m trying to do something like this: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''add_user'', :id => @social_event_group %> <%= select ''user'', ''id'' , User.find_all.collect {|u| [ u.login, u.id ] }%></p> <%= submit_tag "Add User" %> <%= end_form_tag %>

I sent this earlier but I don''t think it ever came through. Sorry if this is a reposting. When using :priority_zones for time_zone_select in a manner described by the API docs for ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper I''m getting errors. Here is an API docs example: time_zone_select( "user", ''time_zone'', TimeZone.us_zones, :default => "Pacific Time (US & Canada)") When using this code I get "uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::...

In Rails 0.14.3, I''m doing the following in a view: <%= select ''folder'', ''format'', [''a'', ''b'', ''c''] %> This line in is failing with: ActionView::TemplateError (too few arguments.) Am I calling select incorrectly? (Yes, the @folder object does exist, and does have an attribute

...amed "format". It''s a varchar, but only the following values are valid: ["open", "womens", "coed"]. Naturally, I want to have an HTML select element on the edit page that contains the valid values, and is set to the current value. It seems like FormOptionsHelper#select should do exactly what I want, so I tried this: <%= select("division", "format", ["open", "womens", "coed"]) %> But that gets a "raised too few arguments" error. Based on this HOWTO: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/sh...

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to use the options available with the us_states plugin. What is the proper syntax for using the :priority and :with_abbreviation options? Thanks, jeremy

I would like to add javascript ''onChange'' event handling for a select field, such as <%= collection_select("job", "client_id" , @clients, "id", "name") %> with onChange="xxx" Anyone know how to make this work? Thank you, Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a form with contingent select boxes (the state is contingent on the country selected, so when the country selected changes, the state changes -- I am using the Carmen plugin for getting my state names and country names together, but not the functionality I am interested in achieving). Everything works fine except I cannot figure out how to amend my code such that: A. When the form is first

I''m using a dropdown on my form for a simple cms which displays the pages from the database. I want to add some options to the dropdown that are not in the database. Is there a way to do this? Here''s my code so far: <p><label for="navigation_link">Link</label><br/> <%= select("navigation", "link",

When using :priority_zones for time_zone_select in a manner described by the API docs for ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper I''m getting errors. Here is an API docs example: time_zone_select( "user", ''time_zone'', TimeZone.us_zones, :default => "Pacific Time (US & Canada)") When using this code I get "uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::TimeZ...

I''ve been trying to sort out a multiple select dropdown but haven''t found any good examples - anyone know of any or perhaps could make a suggestion [see below] Model: 1. Task AR has_many users 2. User AR belongs_to task login/password attributes Controller: View: <%= collection_select("task", "users" , @users, "id", "login", {},

In the API docs I found this: "You can also build forms using a customized FormBuilder class. Subclass FormBuilder and override or define some more helpers, then use your custom builder " I couldn''t find any further documentation on this. Where can I read more about this formbuilder class? For starters, where would I define a subclass of this class? TIA, Jeroen --

...f options for a form select. This is from a product model that has_many variations def alts_for_select(current_id) the_map = variations.map{|v| [v.name, v.id]} options_for_select(the_map, current_id) end the model cannot see the options_for_select method I tried to use ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper::options_for_select(the_map, current_id) but this didn''t work. Any ideas? Thanks, Peter

using the below: <%= select(''project'', ''project_type_id'', @project_types.collect {|x| [x.name,x.id]}, {:include_blank => true}) %> but i''d like that first option to have something like "select project type" with an empty value?

Hi guys, I''m new to ruby and rails and I''m working on multi model forms, specifically 3. I''m using this http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html as a start, and its got a 2 Model example but I cant seem to get the last one working. These are my models: Country name:string code:string (has_one :address) Address address_line1:string

...> Now, looking at the api docs, it says: ---- *country_select*(object, method, priority_countries = nil, options = {}, html_options = {}) Return select and option tags for the given object and method, using country_options_for_select <http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M000406> to generate the list of option tags. ---- How was I to know it should have been an array? Had I not been so tired, I would''ve probably infrerred it from the parameter''s pluralization. Additionally, after figuring out the problem, I noted country_options_for_...

...and fills one with some data: create_table :sound_styles do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false end create_table :show_types do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false end create_table :countries do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false end ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper::COUNTRIES.each do |c| Country.create :name => c # Fill in some content end So far so good... but I experienced that when the code, that fills in the countries into the table throws an exception, then the whole migration is only particularly succeeded, what means, that the stuff, that su...