similar to: using association properties in form helpers

hello, supposing i have a User class that contains a Wibble class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :wibble end in my view i have <%= collection_select :user, :wibble, Wibble.find(:all), :id, :name %> when i post, i get an error like "Wibble expected, got String" how/where am I supposed to convert this posted wibble_id into a Wibble, or am I using collection_select

My models are: class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :location class Location < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :event The view: ... <%= datetime_select ''event'', ''meet_at'', :start_year => 2006 %></p> <%= collection_select(:event, :location, @locations, :id, :name) %> .. The problem is that in the controller, when I

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

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

All -- I've been working on a simple tooltip widget and thought I'd release it into the wild. It builds on the features found in Prototype 1.5.0 RC0 and Scriptaculous 1.6.1. Very basically, it walks down a list of links and if they have id, href and title attributes, displays a tooltip on mouseover. Styled with a few lines of CSS and background images. You can demo it here:

i seem to be experiencing a bug where rails tells me that my organization object''s associated credit card is invalid (activerecord validation-wise invalid), when i know it to be valid. this happens only if i tell the organization to validate_associated :credit_card. i know the associated credit card is valid, because a) that credit_card object itself throws no validation errors, and b)

I thought I had a handle on this one but it''s causing me grief and I''m hoping somebody can set me straight. I have an object AlertTemplate which will contain a fill in the blank style hunk of web content. I then have an object, Alert, which will have a relationship to one of those AlertTemplate objects, plus some data. So, in human speak, I''d think that an Alert

When I update an ActiveRecord, i would like to "touch" one of the related objects, that the updated record belongs_to, in order to update the timestamps on the parent record, although i don''t want to change any of the data in the parent. Whats the accepted way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

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

Hello - I am fairly new to Ruby on Rails, but feel like I am learning quick. I have what seems to be a fairly unique issue as I cannot find much out there that describes what I''m seeing. Hopefully it''s a very simple fix, and I simply can''t see the forest through all the trees! I am attempting to create 2 related drop-down lists in the same form_for, both using

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'',

Hi, I have 2 models: Model 1: er, Columns: <er_id, er_name> Model 2: er_process, Columns: <er_id, er_process_name> er_id is a foreign key for Model 2. When I am creating a new er_process or editing an existing one, I have been successful to use collection_select to show the available er''s so that the user can select a particular er by its name (to populate the er_id

I am creating a data entry form that allows a user to fill in multiple rows and save them all at once. In my controller, I create an array of "person" objects and pass it to the page. On the page, I have a text field like so: <%= text_field "person", "name", "index" => 1 %> Note the "index" attribute, which sets the name and id

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 two collection_select in my list.rhtml: <%= collection_select (:region, :id, @regionall, :id, :title,html_options={:onChange => "new Ajax.Updater(''related_provinces'',''/categories/related_provinces/" + "?id=''+this[this.selectedIndex].value, {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true});"}) %><br> <%= render :partial =>

How do I specify which option should be initially selected when using the collection_select command? I''ve tried: collection_select(:selectionfilter, :producer_id, Producer.find(:all), :id, :name, {:include_blank => true, :selected_value => @initial_selection}) However it doesn''t return the desired results (the option with the value of @initial_selection selected).

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 use the following code in my view: <%= collection_select(''datedata'', ''date'', @allDate, :id, :date) %> It''s show me the date of all entries in the database (Dropdown menu). Additional, I wrote a helper method "showDate" in the application_helper.rb! How can I use this method in the collection_select for every date entry? thanks

Hi, I am using collection_select to build a drop down list. I would like to have the current value selected. How can I do that? My current code is straight from the example in Pragmatic Programmers book [2nd ed, p480] copying here for reference. <%= @users = User.find(:all, :order => "name" ) form.collection_select(:name, @users, :id, :name) %> I went through the api docs

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