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Hi, being relativly new to RoR, I''m having a problem which I found described in this forum and somewhere else - but with no solution. I know, that it may be bad to mix table and form tags, but the first solution of an in place editing within a table looked nice: Version using form_for: <tr> <%form_for :time_record, :url => { :action => "add_time_record" } do

I have the following snippet in my app: <% @anitem = Item.find(:all, :conditions => "id = " + params[:id]) %> <% form_for :anitem, :url => { :action => :updateitem } do |thisform| -%> ... ... (some code...removed) ... <%= collection_select :thisform, :item_category, ItemCategory.find(:all), :id, :name %><br> <%= collection_select :thisform,

I am having an annoying problem displaying the labels of a select box correctly where there is an ampersand contained within the label string. On a form being rendered with the form_for helper the collection_select reads data from a Mysql 5.075 database the text stored in the database is "Surabaya & Surrounding Areas" when rendered and displayed in firefox 3.6 or safari is is

The rails docs are so horrible on the collection_select method. They need to show a *complete* form, and show two examples: one that calls f.collection_select(), and another that calls collection_select(), and explain the differences. Given this line: f.collection_select :topic, Topic.all, :id, :category What the !@#$!@#$ is :topic? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received

Hey, I can successfully pass a single object from any form field to my controller via: Select Year: <%= collection_select("vehicle", "year", @availableYears, "year", "year", {:prompt => "Select a year"}, {:onchange => "#{remote_function(:url => {:action =>

Hi, I''m trying to create a dropdown using collection_select. However, I cant seem to get it to select the right option by default. In my controller I have a setup like this: @content = Content.new @content.selection_id = 3 @selections = Selection.find(:all) In my view I have: <% form_for :content, @content, :url => { :action => ''create'' } do |f| %>

I have a Shipment class that is used to ship packages between Branches. However, when I try to have two belongs_to in Shipment called shipped_to and shipped_from I can''t seem to make it work. I can get it to display the form properly but when I select the branches and click save I get the following error... "Branch expected, got String" Any ideas? I have added some code

I want to be able to change one attribute of a link_to to be what is the current selection of the collection_select. And needless to say I can''t quite figure it out. app/views/tasks/show.html.erb Who would you like to assign this task to?<br /> <%= link_to ''Myself'', :controller => ''task_queues'', :task_id => @task.id, :action =>

I can''t imagine what I''m trying to do is complicated at all in Rails. Yet, I am now getting this error: undefined method `state'' for :StudentFailState:Symbol. student.rb has_one :student_fail attr_accessor :student_fail_attribute #controller def student_fail @student = @student.find params[:id] def update_student_fail @student.build_student_fail

Hi I''m having a issue with one object when try to update the attributes in this object previously saved in the database I have one object comp and one object reg they have this relationship comp has_many regs reg belongs_to comp when run use the method valid? like this current_contribuyente.comps.build(params[:comp]).valid? it returns: IndexError (string not matched) And when

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

I have a simple RESTful search scaffold that finds data in a separate model and controller. [code] <h1>New search</h1> <% form_for(@search) do |f| %> <%= f.error_messages %> <p> <%= f.label :category_id %><br /> <%= f.collection_select :category_id, Category.all, :id, :name, :include_blank => true %> </p> <p> Age

Hola a tod@s, Les cuento... Tengo lo siguiente en aplicación: Una página donde esta mi modelo docencia que a su vez le voy agregando todos los dictados de carreras: <fieldset> <% f.fields_for :dictados do |dictado_form| %> <%= render :partial => ''dictado'', :locals => { :f => dictado_form } %> <% end %> <%= add_child_link

Greetings, I''m looking for suggestions on how to simplify getting customer addresses on a form: I''m jumping between controller and view several times; alternating between rhtml and rjs, in order to display customers and their addresses on an invoicing form. It''s very messy. I have a one to many relationship between Customer and Addresses, each customer has one or more

I''m trying to get a collection_select generated Drop-down box to display two fields from a table (first name & last name); however, I am having trouble concatenating the symbols. It appears as though any code I put in the 5th argument for collection_select is processed prior to executing the collection_select method. The code executes successfully with 1 symbol in the 5th

(Sorry if you have received this twice, I''m having trouble sending mail to the rails list) Greetings, I''m looking for suggestions on how to simplify getting customer addresses on a form: I''m jumping between controller and view several times; alternating between rhtml and rjs, in order to display customers and their addresses on an invoicing form. It''s very

Hey Everyone, I''m about to embark on having a search function for the products on my app via dynamic dropdowns. A dropdown for make would only leave AVAILABLE models of that make. selecting year would only leave available makes from that year etc etc. Any suggestions or good read ups ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hey all, I get an undefined method `join'' for #<String NoMethodError. student.rb has_one :student_fail attr_accessor :student_fail_attribute #controller def student_fail @student = @student.find params[:id] def update_student_fail @student.build_student_fail params[:student][:student_fail_attribute] if @student.save #view form_for @student do |f|

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'',

Hiall, Unfortunately I just can''t find out how to setup a default selected value when using collection_select. My call is like so: <%= collection_select(:consultant, :lastname, @consultants, :id, :lastname, { :selected => @current_consultant.id } ) %> which is not working, I debugged so far that I know that @current_consultant.id contains the correct value. Any tips? cheers