similar to: how to access selected value in controller action

I have the following many-to-many relationships defined in my model code to model a many to many relationship between Media and PriceCode with Price being the association table: class Media < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :prices has_many :price_codes, :through => :prices end class Price < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :media belongs_to :price_code end class PriceCode <

The documentation states as an example: select("post", "person_id", Person.find_all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, { :include_blank => true }) could become: <select name="post[person_id]"> <option></option> <option value="1" selected="selected">David</option> <option

This code: <p> <label for="resource_type">Type</label><br/> <%= select(:resource, :type, %w{ Web Data }, { :include_blank => true }) %> </p> Produces this error: TypeError in Resources#new Showing app/views/resources/_form.rhtml where line #6 raised: wrong argument type String (expected Module) Extracted source (around line

Can''t seem to find an example of this anywhere - how do I populate a select list in a form from a database? I have a form to create a new task. The task is for a client, so there should be a select list populated from my clients table. I thought this would work: <%= select ''task'', ''client_id'', Client.find_all, "id", "name"

Hi, I have this code for a select box, <%= select("plugin", "plugcats", Plugcats.find_all.collect {|p| [ p.title, p.id ] }, { :include_blank => true }) %> at the minute it extracts teh requried data, but submits the data as params[''plugin''][''plugcats''] how can I get it to submit it as

I''m having some really weird problems with an app I''m writing. Everything is working as expected on my development machine (OSX, Rails 0.14.4) but is cacking out with weird errors on the Textdrive demo site (FreeBSD, Rails 1.0.0). It complains about missing variables, with errors like this: undefined local variable or method `rawcode'' for

I use :filter action to display form and allow record filtering. It contains form with combo box, submit button and list of record matching value in combo. filter.rb: class Filter attr_accessor :owner def initialize(params) @owner = ''''; if !params[:filter].nil? and params[:filter].has_key?(:owner) @owner = params[:filter][:owner] end end end Controler: @users =

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?

I realize this is probably a very basic problem but I''m developing my first rails app and running into this problem. I''m trying to write a photoblog application. I have a photo table and an album table. Photo has a to-one relationship to Album. Photo.album_id => Album.id In my view for photo I have a selection list that''s populated with all the available albums.

All, I have code that looks like this: <%= select(''date'', ''month'', [ ["1?","1"], ["2?","2"], ["3?","3"], ["4?","4"], ["5?","5"], ["6?","6"], ["7?","7"], ["8?","8"],

Guys, I searched this forum and found plenty of people having this problem, but I didn''t see any definitive solution. Usings Rails 1.0. When I edit an existing record, I can''t get the basic "select" helper to display the current value contained in the field of the record. All of my other (text) fields populate correctly with current field values. There appears

Hello everyone, I''m trying to wire a combobox in a view to update the database. When I select something in the combobox and press ''update'' it goes through fine, except it places the default value for the field of the combobox. Any suggestions? Here''s the model: class TestResult < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :status_index has_one :test_type has_one

I am getting html output in my email body with spurious characters that cannot be rendered, so that my links are not handled properly. What am I not getting here? My email body contains: -----------------clip------------- <A href=mailto:&quot;<%=h(''support-t1rxLZ7CIXjQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org'')%>? Support&quot;>Support</A><br/> with any

Hello. I want to select an item from a select list and have that result in an ajax call that updates two sections on the page. Here is the code in the controller def create ... render :update do |page| page.replace_html ''list_items'', :partial => ''lists/list_items'' page.replace_html ''add_item'', :partial =>

I want my date fields to default to NIL or "", because the presence of a date means something. My problem is that rails is defaulting the fields to today''s date automatically when I create a new record through the scaffold. I tried removing the default ''0000-00-00'' and changing NOT NULL to NULL, but both columns get today''s date as the default

I''m trying to get a select box to populate with the current option for editing purposes. I can populate the box, but not with the currently selected value. I''ve read in the api where it says to do this: # Example with @post.person_id => 1: # select("post", "person_id", Person.find_all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, { :include_blank =>

Hi all I tried and tried and tried, but I still fail in creating a form with proper validation and stuff for foreign keys... So I''d really like to get some help here. I''m creating a booking site for DJ''s, and for every booking one can choose one of different countries: class Booking < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :country_id

I would like to have a date control on a page and I would like a behavior similar to what you get using date_select with the :include_blank => true option where the first value in the dropdown is "- Month -", "- Day -", or "- Year -" rather than a blank value for the respective month, day, and year select fields. I took a look at the ruby source for

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

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/.