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So the api listing says that radio_button(object, method, tag_value, options = {}) gives a radio button tag, and if object.method == tag_value, then the button will be checked. I verified the method behaves correctly for attributes of type string. However, if the attribute is of type int, it doesn''t make the button checked. Does anyone have some information before I file a bug? Some

Hi all, I can''t figure out why my radio_buttons won''t reflect the values stored in my database. I read through some of the previous posts -- is it true that they don''t work with integers? This is the code I''m using: <% for question in @survey.questions %> <%= debug question %> <%= radio_button ( "question", :question_id,

Hello, I''m new to Ruby on Rails. I am creating a form for searching purpose: <% form_for :src_cond, :url => {:action =>''search''} do |p| %> <%= p.radio_button("bd", "1") %> a <%= p.radio_button("bd", "2") %> b <%= p.select :bd2, %w[1 2 3 4],{},{:index=>nil} %> <%=

Does anyone know how to get the radio_button helper to set the html "checked" option? Thanks, Curt

Hi, I need to observe a set of radio buttons but am having great trouble. My observe_field looks like this: <%= observe_field :user_select, :frequency => 0, :url => { :action => :admin_control } %> Now it works fine if I use a text_field like this: <%= text_field :user, :select, "size" => 20, "maxlength" => 16 %> But I want a radio button, and

I''m creating my first Rails app and need an idea creating forms. I have Meeting model with place attribute. I want to have two fields for Meeting.place = one would be select with places from other meetings or text_field if the place is being used first time. User would be selecting radio_button of which field he has used. So is there any way to nest select and text_field within 2

So i had a boolean attribute in my model which gets interpreted to tinyint(1) in mysql by rails migrations. Now tinyint(1) accepts a range in mysql and i want to change my boolean attribute to an attribute which can accept 3 values(0,1,2). I made the change to the view and when i post the form selecting the selecting the value ''2'', it still gets saved as a ''0''.

I don''t know what I am doing wrong. I have a User class with a "send_message_emails" boolean field. The value for this is true. In postgresql this is stored as a "t" in the database. In Rails this field is a boolean and is set to true, but for some reason the following code is *not* working... the radio_button is not selected. <%= radio_button "user",

Hello, there is a table that has a column TINYINT(1) called status. Through mysql console I see its value as 1 (when is true) but if I do this in Rails console: Mytable.status => true give me "true" rather "1". How could I change 1 to true using some method? Or true to 1? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are

Hi! I''m a RoR newbie and i''m trying to make this sample code work... I must be able to choose whether or not to switch lights on/off (one light per line) <table> <% @valeurs.each do |@v| %> <tr> <td>Light <%= Light.find(@v.light_id).nom %>:</td> <td><%= radio_button(''v[]'', ''etat'',

Thanks for the input Blair Zajac and Chris (Nolan and Hall), and for others. If all of you have time, please follow this (the question still relates to the previous posts by me): I have provided full steps to reproduce the symptoms. If it matters, I''m running Ruby 1.8.2, Rails 1.0, and MySQL 5.0.15 on Windows XP Professional. 1. First, the setup MySQL ----- create database testdb;

I have what seems like simple, working code: <form action="save_dh_options" method="post"> <fieldset> <legend>DH Work Reports</legend> <p>Would you like to fill a work report?</p> <p><%= radio_button("user", "enable_report", "yes") %><label for="yes"> Yes</label><br

Hi, Anyone got any cool tricks for converting a Rails site (in this case, a typo installation) from a mysql database to a postgresql database? I''ve got it almost working -- I''m doing a SQL dump from mysql and loading it into postgres. However, mysql does booleans as a tinyint with 0 = false and 1 = true. When I try to import that into a postgres database that expects booleans

I''m making a simple questionnaire app using RoR. I''ve got a model for Questions, a model for Answers, and a third model, Qa, for matching each question to five possible answers through foreign keys. So, each qa has a question and five answers , a1-a5, through belongs_to and a :foreign_key, and then a selected_answer field for specifying which answer was selected by the user. The

For my first rails app, I''m building a web page that will list some restaurants and then have the user rate them from from 1 to 5 using 5 radio buttons. The view code looks like: <h3>Ratings:</h3> <form action="save_ratings" method="post"> <table> <tr> <th>Restaurant</th> <% for rating_option in

I have a view with a form and i want to be able to process the button selected in a controller - not sure how to do this. The form does not map directly to a model - all I want to do is be able to pass back the selected button and know which one it is. So, i have a form and several radio buttons - the submit (not shown) takes me to the process_answer action where I want to determine which

Hi, Having big problems with radio buttons that just don''t make sense: <%= radio_button "events", "impact_type", true %> Positive <%= radio_button "events", "impact_type", false %> Negative This should create two radio buttons with the first one checked by default, right? Cos it doesn''t :( Any ideas would be great, Thanks,

I am migrating to sql server 2000 from postgres and I have tried char(1), int, tinyint and bit datatypes to replace booleans, but without luck. the 1''s and 0''s are stored properly in the db, but checkboxes and dropdowns are not being auto-populated in rails. Anyone experience this before? thanx -- View this message in context:

I have: <%= radio_button ''foo'', ''bar_id'', ''1'' %> <%= radio_button ''foo'', ''bar_id'', ''2'' %> <%= radio_button ''foo'', ''bar_id'', ''3'' %> I would like to have option #3 be selected if foo.bar_id is nil. Is there a way to do

...or my ineptitude? I found that the following is always checking the last ''things'' button regardless of the value of query.table: People:<%= radio_button_tag("query", "table", "P") %> Animals:<%= radio_button_tag("query", "table", "A") %> Things:<%= radio_button_tag("query",