similar to: Unable to get selected option with options_from_collection_for_select

Paul Welty wrote: > collection_select(:client, :company_id, @companies, :id, :name, { > :selected_value => 2 , :prompt => "Please select a company..." }) > > Returns a functioning SELECT element, but it won¹t select the second item. > (BTW, using the selected_value as a string doesn¹t work either) > > Am I doing something wrong, or is this impossible? >

I''m having problems to make the selected works, i''ve been trying with select and options_from_collection_for_select. I''ve tried, :selected, :selected_key, :selected_value, and all i can got from the doc page ( http://rubyonrails.org/api/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M000399 ) and from wiki. Code: select(''informacao'',

in my controller @cursos = Curso.find_all in my view i''m trying to do a select_tag with the results @cursos, using a helper select_tag "name" options_for_select(@cursos) --------> not works select_tag "name" @cursos --------> not works how to do it, using the helper? tks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In a form, I am trying to use collection_select with multiple=true, like so: collection_select(:user, :roles, Role.find(:all), ''id'', ''name'', {}, :multiple => true) %> My multiple select box is rendered fine, but... I want the select to have the current role options for the user pre-selected when I view it. So if there are five roles in the database and

Hey, I am trying to get a select list with a selected value in it. Even if I put in an integer, like this, <%= select_tag(fruit.id, "<option>No Contract</option>" + options_from_collection_for_select(@fruit_types, "id", "kind", 3)) %> the list still displays the first option (No Contract) in the list. What am I doing wrong? I''ve looked

I need to add a blank or dashed field to the options_from_collection_for_select helper but can''t seem to get it to work. Tried this, but with no effect: <%= options_from_collection_for_select @airlines, ''id'', ''name''], {:include_blank=>true} %> Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, -S -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a table with first_name and last_name, and wan''t to populate a drop-down with the id and the person''s name consisting of the first and last names concatenated together. Can''t figure out how to tell options_from_collection_for_select to do that. Any ideas? I basically need to do something like: <%= options_from_collection_for_select @media_creators,

I have a drop down of country''s and I would like the USA to be the first displayed. I have tried: <select id = "user_w_country" name ="user[w_country]" onchange = "<%=func%>"> <%= options_from_collection_for_select @country, ''id'', ''country'', :selected =>

I ran into a problem using options_from_collection_for_select : ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch (Topic expected, got String): /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/ active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:128:in `raise_on_type_mismatch'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/

i am kind of desparated i try with options_from_collection_for_select to get option values, but it says You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while evaluating nil.inject but @customers is not empty -> def get_customer @customers=Customer.find_all end i have tested it and also the attributes "id"

How do I specify which option should be initially selected when using the collection_select command? I''ve tried: collection_select(:selectionfilter, :producer_id, Producer.find(:all), :id, :name, {:include_blank => true, :selected_value => @initial_selection}) However it doesn''t return the desired results (the option with the value of @initial_selection selected).

The following code shows a list of the users, with username being each person''s initials (mine would be DM). &lt;%= options_from_collection_for_select @users,"id","username" %&gt; However, I''d like to have the display of the SELECT box be "DM - Dylan Markow" instead of "DM." Is this possible using

I have just started using RoR and am creating some select boxes on my form with the following code: <%= select_tag(options_from_collection_for_select(Owner.all, :id, :fname)) %> My problem is that it does NOT return the first record from the table, but just the second and succeeding records. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get the first record included in the select box? Thanks.

Hello there, newbie speaking Let''s say I have: class Office has_many :holidays #(just a list of dates when the office is closed) has_many :doctors #doctors who work in the office end class Doctor belongs_to :office has_many :holidays #(additional dates when this doctor is not available) end class Holiday (has a office_id, doctor_id and a date field) end From the app standpoint I

Hi everyone, I''m stuck on something that seems to be super easy, but maybe I''m just too tired to see the obvious answer. I''m trying to make a drop down with select_tag and options_from_collection_for_select. I''m trying to fill this drop down list with different human races (white, black, hispanic, etc. in the database under the name field, with a unique id

I have a wizard which consists of two pages. To keep it simple let''s say that the first page asks the user to select a state from the drop down menu. In case the user doesn''t select any state, an error message needs to be displayed. Ideally I would like to do something like this. def new selected_value = params[:addevent][:state_id] if selected_value == "-1"

Is there any reason that foreign key fields do not show in any of the scaffold views ? project table: id serial primary key, category_id integer, user_id integer, name varchar, morestuff varchar foreign key (category_id) references categories(id), foreign key (user_id) references users(id) scaffold generated views only show name, morestuff fields

I''m trying to use options_from_collection_for_select to generate options for a multiple select: <select id="metro_area_states" name="states[]" size="10" multiple="multiple"> <%= options_from_collection_for_select State.find(:all), :id, :name, @metro_area.states %> </select> When selecting values for the first time, it works

Hey all, I have 2 newbie questions, 1st question: <%= collection_select (:region, :id, @regionall, :id, :title,options={:prompt=>"- Select cat -"}) %> Ignores the :prompt part while options={:include_blank => true} works. Any idea what I?m doing work with :prompt ? 2nd question: How can make my collection_selected to display it''s third key by default? I know it has

Anyone know how I could trunicate the names of a passed in array in options_from_collection_for_select? I tried a few things but nothing worked. Any ideas would be appreciated! <%= options_from_collection_for_select available_projects, :id, :name, @selected_project_id %> -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.