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What would be the best way to create a form select dropdown box and upon "submit" have it directly go to a controller method view? I have something that somewhat works, but I think there is probably a much easier way to do it. As of now, I have the dropdown list which when the form is submitted is handed to a controller method which basically I have my dropdown box: <%=

Hi All, I am having a little difficulty using the options_for_select forms helper method. I have a form for an active record object book, which belongs to a publisher. Using the options_for_select is working fine as far as creating the various options, but it will not output the "selected=''selected''" bit of html needed to identify which publisher is

Hi, I''m new to Ruby and Rails and I would be very grateful for some advice. I''ve got the following code. class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base include Versionable # Some methods to handle my versioned objects has_many :versions, :class_name => "FooVersion", :foreign_key => "parent_id" belongs_to :curr, :class_name => "FooVersion",

Hi, I just had a try using the xeno-unstable. When I used the xc_dom_create.py to create a new domain I got the followings: ============================================== Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/xc_dom_create.py", line 332, in ? (current_id, current_port) = make_domain() File "/usr/bin/xc_dom_create.py", line 238, in make_domain

How do I show the selected values in options_for_select? I have a Service model and a AccessControl model. When a user edits a Service I want the services access_controls to be pre-selected. Models: Service has_many AccessControls AccessControl belongs_to Service application.rb: $types = Array["Athens", "htpasswd", "IP", "None", "Other",

Hello Everyone I have a select_tag which I populate using a map, I use options_for_select method to pass the map and "selected" value. For some reason I can not get the option "selected" based on the value I pass to the selected attribute. Here is the code <%= select_tag :current_course, options_for_select( Course.find(:all).map {|p| [p.title,p.id]}, @selected )

It cannot be this difficult, especially in rails. Here is my form code in a partial for the index action of a controller: <% form_tag({:controller => controller_name, :action => ''index''}, {:method => :get, :class => ''form''}) do %> <div class="columns"> <div class="column left"> <p>

I have a select_tag in my view that uses options_for_select with multiple = true. I am having trouble figuring out the Rails way to create and update that field. Please help. Models: ------------- Service has_many AccessControl AccessControl belongs_to Service application.rb ------------------------- $types = Array["Athens", "htpasswd", "IP", "None",

Even reading the documentation I can not figure out what is the select_tag difference between this: <% = select_tag (bags [], "options_for_select (bags.collect @ {| bb | [bb.bag_type, bb.id]}, ruser.bags.collect @ {| ub | ub.id}), {: multiple => true,: id => "bags"})%> and this: <% = select_tag "bags [], " options_for_select (bags.collect @ {| bb

Ok, this should be simple but I am finding it''s not and previous postings don''t seem to shed too much light on this. I have a select_tag with 4 values pulled in via a helper: def filter_hours filter_hours = [ ["1 hour", 1], ["24 hours", 24], ["7 days", 168], ["14 days", 336], ] end The select_tag looks

OK, thanks to Kelly I got my options_for_select in a select_tag helper method to use a Ruby range as a value. Now when the user makes a selection from that list, I can''t figure out why the result doesn''t get stored in the database. The line in the _form looks like this: <%= select_tag(:month, options_for_select((0..12).to_a)) %> Pops up an option menu.

Dears, Remembering last value in a select box don''t work for me as : Controller : @years=(1970..2005).to_a Form: <%= select_tag "year", options_for_select( (2001..2005).to_a, @params[:year] ) %> I had to write <%= select_tag "year", options_for_select( (2001..2005).to_a, @params[:year].to_i ) %> for it works. Not important, but I''m

I pulled unstable yesterday and noticed xc_dom_create.py does not have a default value for cpu, so python complains Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/xc_dom_create.py", line 408, in ? (current_id, current_port) = make_domain() File "/usr/bin/xc_dom_create.py", line 234, in make_domain id = xc.domain_create( mem_kb=mem_size*1024,

Here''s what i''m trying to do: Have 3 dropdowns up the top of a page, being: year, month, department, and group. Also a button underneath that called refresh. When you click refresh, it finds the 1 row of data from the database for that year/month/dept/group and populates the fields into a set of textboxes below. Then you can edit what is in those textboxes, and click a

Hi iam using select_tag i want selected_option. i have made select _tag like this <%=select_tag(''name'', options_for_select({ :Relevance =>''Relevant'',:Date=>''Recent''}),:selected=>params[:name].to_s) %> The generated html look like this <select selected="Relevant" name="name"

hi I am facing the following issue: I have the following dropdown, in the new view select_tag "experience[]", options_for_select([[less_than_1_year, [0,1]],[between_1_and_3_years, [1,3]],[between_3_and_5_years, [3,5]],[between_5_and_7_years,[5,7]], [between_7_and_10_years,[7,10]], [above_10_years,[10,50]]]) The selected value of the user is not getting reflected in the Edit view of

I have a field in a view, like so: <%= select_tag(''quoted_condition'', options_for_select([''NEW'',''RETAIL'',''OEM'',''REFURB''], ''NEW'')) %> This sets the ''selected'' value to ''NEW'' - however, I would like to have a nil value here, so I can

<b>Client</b><br /> <%= select_tag ''clients[]'', options_for_select( [['' '',''1''], [''aaaa'',''2''],

Hi, I have created a multiple selection listbox with rails, when I try to get the rows selected by user, rails send back only the first one, how can I get the other selected rows???? I created the listbox with the following function: select_tag("form__list1", options_for_select(["A","B","C","D"], selected = "A"), html_options =

Hi All, Inside my app\views\expenses\new.html.erb file, I had the code: <% form_for(@expense) do |f| %> [snip] <p> <%= f.label :vendor %><br /> <%= f.text_field :vendor %> <br /> <div id="vendor_droplist> <%= select_tag "test", options_for_select(@current_vendors.collect { |v| v.nickname }), {:multiple