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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 want to update a select box depending on another selected option thru ajax. Heres how I do it # _form.rhtml <select id="budget_coordinator_id" name="budget[coordinator_id]" onchange="<%= remote_function(:update => "budget_project_number", :url => { :action => :get_projects }) %>"> <%=

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

Hi, Yet another newbie here... I''m writing an appliction in Rails, and I''ve Ajaxified my select boxes so they update dynamically. I used the "observe_field" method to monitor changes to my select box. I find that it''s kind of erratic... it updates constantly and makes the selection for me, based on where my mouse happens to be hovering when it does its

I went throught the "agile web developemnt with rails" and Now I''m trying to ''enhance'' the code with some extra options. When I go to admin/shipping I want to include some data from the products table in with the order info listed. I can''t seem to get this to work. in my partial form I''m trying to add this: <td

Hi, i''ve got the following problem. I have a check_box witch shows a list of varieties. Now i want to call a action when the user changes his selection. (the method to be called, will store the selection from the user). This is my code: <%= select(''variety'', ''variety_id'', Variety.find_all.collect {|c| [c.description, c.id]},

i can''t get rid of the following error: ActionView::TemplateError (undefined local variable or method `order_line'' for #<#<Class:0xb75b2090>:0xb75b1f28>) on line #13 of app/views/admin/_order_line.rhtml: 10: 11: <tr valign="top"> 12: <td> 13: <div class="olnamebox"><%= h(order_line.name) %></div> 14:

Pretty much a newbie here, looking for help on select boxes in forms.... Is there any way in the view to sort the options of a drop-down select box? My current code (within a larger _form.rhtml file) is: <div class="form-element"> <label for="asset_location_id">Location</label> <%= select ''asset'', ''location_id'',

Hi! in the same problem with a select with some values from db: the following select in test.rhtml: <%= select(:listSetting, :code, @listSettings) %> where @listSettings = ListSetting.find(:all, :order => "code").map {|u| [u.code, u.id] } i have an observer_field defined in test.rhml as below: <%= observe_field("listSetting_code", :update =>

yop, http://rubyonrails.org/api/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html ici j''ai vu qu''on pouvait g?n?rer des ?l?ment d''un formulaire gr?ce des m?thodes. Apres quelque petite recherches j''ai trouv? comment g?n?rer un select <%= select(''category'', ''category.id'', Category.find_all.collect {|category| category.nom})

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

Hi, I''m having great fun developing with Rails but I''ve come to a problem that I can''t quite figure out. I have an Order object that "has_many" order_lines. This works perfectly and I can see all the lines. The OrderLine object has an order_id field as well as product_id and amount. Now ideally I would want to do : order.orderline[0].product.name for

HI, I have the list: > suu [[1]] NULL [[2]] NULL [[3]] item_id prod 1 2 [[4]] item_id prod 1 2 2 4 how to delete all "NULL" elements from suu to get only >suu [[3]] item_id prod 1 2 [[4]] item_id prod 1 2 2 4 ?? Kind regards, Tammy [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

I''m running Rails 3 and I''m trying to populate a table using rake db:fixtures:load, and I''m getting a "Could not find" file error. The table is called stores, and I''ve confirmed that it exists, and the data is in stores.yml in my test/fixtures directory. The command I''m running is rake db:fixtures:load FIXTURES=stores. The error message

I''m trying to get my animal app to let users populate info about each animal. The code below partially works. It shows the drop down menu, and it shows the names of what I wanted it to be the names of the Databases. I don''t know how to make it work so it shows the name dog and than you hit submit and it appears in the dog view. When I hit submit it just makes a new view under the

Hi everyone, I''ve tried posting the same question to the list last Friday but somehow did not see it being posted.. I''ve just started with Rails and Ruby. I just started to play one of those RPG and to get my feet wet I''m writing an app to keep track of item fusions. So the scoop is that item can be fused with another items to create a higher level item. The higher

Hi, i''m going to implement a syndication-service, which will get lists in xml with some meta-data an enclosed video files, which will get encoded at the end. The syndication run will be startet every five minutes of a full hour. So i thought to build 4 Worker. One for checking which feeds to syndicate (syndication_worker) at a specific time, one for processing the list

Over the past few days I''ve seen a number of examples posted here where people are populating their select boxes in the view; that is: <% options = Model.find(:all, ...).map{|m| [m.name, m.id]} -%> <%= select(:object, :attribute, options, ... %> Is this the preferred way of doing this? I''ve generally done this in my controller, where I can catch exceptions and

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?