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<%=country_select ''user'', ''country''%> I have the above field, how can I add a class to this? The api says this, if someone could explain how to get to the html_options bit, without the others, that would be great? country_select(object, method, priority_countries = nil, options = {}, html_options = {}) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Using Country_select how to have default valur set to United States. I have a select drop down in my Ui to display the Country names. But i need United tates to be selected as default value. I use country_select to populate the country names. This is how i use <%= f.country_select :country, :selected=>''United States'' %> i also tried <%= f.country_select :country,

Hi, I need to create a list of coutries in a driop down. I''m aware of a function ''country_options_for_select'' however this jsut seems to output a string of all countires. How can I get this list in a drop down? Thanks scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hey, i have this website (with ajax also) with lot of records of employee, and as an extra feature i want that the customer can import his employeelist (perhaps 100+ records), lot of work to do this manually. i would create a template like this Firstname Lastname Phone xxxx xxxxx xxxxx yyyy yyyyy yyyyy then they upload the excel file or save it as csv file

I have in my view the following: <% 0.upto(@num_performances) do |idx| -%> <%= text_field ''performance'', ''city'', :index => idx, %> <%= text_field ''performance'', ''venue'', :index => idx, %> <% end -%> and in my controller I have: @performance = [Performance.new("city" =>

Can someone explain why form helpers appear to bypass any model methods I override for fields that are bound to database fields? It would be great if someone could tell me how to force the form field, etc to call the method instead of looking at the database / attributes collection. Let''s say I have a column called ''price'' in my database table "books"

Hi i am a newbee at rails and i am using the country_select and select drop down boxes in my new.rhtml I can make these work fine but when i try viewing it in my database and show and index they just wont appear, I have tried to edited it to how do I go about showing these items everywhere i am completely stuck. if text field = f.text_field then why doesnt country_select = f.country_select or

country_select not working in Rails 2.2.2 How to fix it'' <%= country_select(:employee, :national, ["United States", "Russian Federation"], {}) %> -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

Hi there, I''m trying to override the defaults for form_helper. I can see in action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb: class InstanceTag #:nodoc: include Helpers::TagHelper attr_reader :method_name, :object_name DEFAULT_FIELD_OPTIONS = { "size" => 30 }.freeze unless const_defined?(:DEFAULT_FIELD_OPTIONS) DEFAULT_RADIO_OPTIONS = { }.freeze

What is the best way to override some of the FormHelper default options? Right now I''m adding this to the beginning of my environment.rb: ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag::DEFAULT_TEXT_AREA_OPTIONS = { "cols" => 80, "rows" => 5 } Is that the way it''s supposed to be done? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message

Hello, In actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb (trunk) @ ~296 in the def to_select_tag(choices, options, html_options) function, why is there add_default_name_and_id(html_options) instead of add_default_name_and_id(options) This is inconsistent with the non-select helpers where add_default_name_and_id always use options. Is there a special reason for this?

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to use the options available with the us_states plugin. What is the proper syntax for using the :priority and :with_abbreviation options? Thanks, jeremy

Why doesn''t this output class="delete" into my html? <%= link_to_remote image_tag("delete"), :update => "relationship_" + @relationship.id.to_s, :url => { :controller => "relationships", :action => "destroy", :id => @relationship.id }, :html_options => {:class => "delete"} %> Regards, Ben

I am trying to add html_options to select(): <%=select(:user, :id,[[''me'',1],[''myself'',2],[''and I'',3]], :select => {},:html_options => {"size" => 5, "multiple" => true})%> This does not work... How do I get the html_options to work? ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper -- Posted via

Hi, trying to locate documentation for html_options = {} as allowed in RJS calls such as link_to_remote. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, Is session[:return_to] something Rails maintains to quickly go back to the previous uri without having to keep track of the action name? Or, do we have to actually set it in our actions? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060510/7e36a528/attachment.html

I''ve noticed lots of people online complain about not good documentation for Rails. I''m a PHP programmer but I''m a newbie on Rails. I''m creating a form with a drop-down menu. I finally got to do it. I noticed there is a html_options parameter for select. I was curious as to what other html_options are available but couldn''t find a list of options. I

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/.

Hello, After reading and reading the documentation, I can''t append some javascript function into a select. It''s not possible ? documentation: ------------------------------------------------------------- select(object, method, choices, options = {}, html_options = {}) some code: ------------------------------------------------------------- return select(:id, :year, [

Hi Everyone I am a new user of Ruby and Rails, and would like some help with the following problem. I have created a navbar with a styled unordered list and I would like to apply class="current" to the tab for the current page. Currently I am using a large, cumbersome and ugly if..then block, rendering the class="current" into the html and link_tos with current_page?. I am