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I have a model layer containing Movie, Person, Role, and RoleType, making it possible to express facts such as "Clint Easterbunny is director of the movie Gran Milano". The relevant model and associations look like this class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :roles, :include => :role_type, :dependent => :destroy has_many :participants, :through => :roles, :source

Hey All, I''m trying to play along w/the ''complex forms 1'' railscast (http://railscasts.com/episodes/73) and having trouble. The view is projects/new. I''m trying to add some project_people to the form w/code like so: <% form_for(@project) do |f| %> [project stuff here] <% for pp in @project.project_person %> <% fields_for

Hi all, In the application i develop, a sophisticated login system is required. Being a newbie in Ruby, i''m not comfortable with the select tag in the form tag. My requirement: 2 tables - User(LoginName, Password, RoleId...) and Role(RoleId, RoleName...) View - RoleNames to be loaded in the drop down box and On submit, RoleId to be passed to controller for authentication. My Code

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/.

Have 2 tables - clients & case_managers class Client < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :case_manager end app/views/clients/_form.html contains line... <p><% collection_select("client", "case_manager_id", \ case_manager.find_all, "name", "id") %></p> and this line generates error... undefined local variable or method

Hi everyone, I have a problem. I want to display a different select box wether the current user is an admin or an user. So I thought I could do this in my view where my form is displayed : <p class="form-input"> <%= f.label(:role_id, ''Role:'') %> <% if (current_user.admin?) then collection_select(:user, :role_id, Role.find(:all, :order =>

In my User form I have standard field to get user record attributes (first_name, last_name and email) I also have a select drop_down to choose a role from an array first_name, last_name and email are user record attributes, but I defined the role name as a virtual attribute validates_presence_of :email, :last_name attr_accessor :role_name validates_presence_of :role_name, :if =>

Hi trying to create a select box in _form.rhtml. I have a table called organisations that contains fileds, 2 being ''id'' and ''name'' these are the fields I need to bring over to the clients _form.rhtml. whats the best way of going about that?? 2 ways i have seen suggested that I cant get to work -@organisations = Organisation.find_all placed this in def new

Could you be more specific about what is not working? -- Are your association methods between Role and User being set up correctly? (If not, make sure your statement is "has_and_belongs_to_many", and not "hasandbelongstomany".) -- Are you storing the data for role_name in the index? If so, can you see it there? I''m not familiar with the find_with_ferret

I know, I know, they''re not allowed to. But here''s my problem. I''ve got a really simple model with two fields, name and price, which I want to show in a form select drop-down. "collection_select" takes a ''text_method'' parameter, which is the method in the model that gets its value placed in the <option> tag. Because I want to show both

I have a select list tht is built from a "collection_select" and I want to reselect the value the user submitted if any part of the form errors. could someone point me in the right direction for doing this? my select looks like this collection_select(:company, :id, @companies, :id, :name) I tried setting the variable @company to param[:company] but that didnt work. thanks --

Before I waste more time trying to figure that out, I was wondering if it''s even possible? The Rails Way says that observe_field by default will trigger changes in text fields and text areas, and on clicks for radio buttons and check boxes. So perhaps I''m using the wrong tool here? Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you

I want a select box that displays 5 rows instead of one row and a drop down. so i figure this should work, but it doesn''t. <%= collection_select(:constellation, :region_id, @regions, :id, :name, html_options = {:size => ''5''})%> I am not quite sure how to use that html_options and googling around I didnt find anything directly on point. Any suggestions?

sorry for the noob question: how do i reference an association''s properties in a form helper? e.g. if i wanted to build a select list to choose a user''s address''s state (user.address.state), how would i hook that to the "method" of collection_select collection_select :user, ???, States.find(:all)

Hello, I am working on a project, and on one form we have a select (drop- down) box where the user needs to be able to select from a list of clients. The box is currently being populated with: <%= collection_select(:client, :id, @account.clients, :id, :name) %> The problem is that some of these clients may have already been selected, and we need to remove them from the list. Is this

I''m trying to get a select box of categories to appear in my items views after I created everything using generate scaffold, but I can''t get the categories to appear in my forms. class ItemsController < ApplicationController def new @item = Item.new @category = Category.find_all end ... class Item < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category end class

I''m close to getting this to work, but not quite there. I''m trying to implement a dropdown control, with the current choice selected. I have the following code in the view: 5 <select id="product_product_type" name="product[product_type]"> 6 <%= 7 types = ProductType.find(:all, :order => "product_type") 8

Hi, I have an advance search page and its code is as follows - I have written my code like this <div class="container"> <%= form_tag search_index_path, method: :get do %> <%= radio_button_tag ''user_type'', ''customer'' %><p>Customer</p> <%= radio_button_tag ''user_type'',

I would like to see the output of actionview helper methods, to be able to play with it. When I do the following in the console: collection_select("job", "client_id" , @clients, "id", "name") I get: NoMethodError: undefined method `collection_select'' for #<Object:0xb7cf1970> I''d like to get something like: <select

I have form and a collection_select control. I would like to update form fields (text box) when I select an item from the collection_select box. It''s like selecting template from the collection_select and the template automatically loads to text boxes. Any help? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups