Thanks for the help.  Honestly, I looked at so many code samples that they're 
all starting to blur together.  I'll try it again -- it helps knowing that it's 
supposed to work 'as is'.

Cheers! Paul

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Kerry Foley <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Kerry Foley <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Yet another question on dynamic selects
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 5:32 PM
> 
> It sounds like your column name is incorrect. You didn't
> paste you're 
> code so I can't say for sure. You should be doing something
> like
> config.columns[:project_type].form_ui = :select 
> #belongs_to
> or
> config.columns[:regions].form_ui =
> :select   #has_many
> it shouldn't be "_id" - it's the association name, not the
> column name.
> 
> There are examples on the wiki e.g Getting Started;
> http://wiki.github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold
> 
> You don't need to build the select.
> 
> I think there's a more or less complete set of controller,
> model and 
> helper code for what you are trying to do in the thread
> previously sent.
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold/browse_thread/thread/2ae130edb1d0e2d2
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Kerry
> 
> 
> Me wrote:
> > Bare with me here.  I'm a little slow. So I tried
> the code, and I get:
> >
> > You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> > The error occurred while evaluating nil.form_ui=
> >
> > Is there enough smarts built-in to populate the select
> boxes? Or do I
> > need something like:
> >
> > a= Author.find(:all).collect { |a| a.name  }
> >
> > If that kind of code is required, do I put that in the
> helper form
> > override?  Any chance I can see one complete
> example that works?  I've
> > been banging my head on this for a while.  When I
> Google, I just come
> > across more people that have been banging there heads
> on this.
> >
> > Thanks! Paul
> >
> > On Aug 19, 1:58 pm, Kerry Foley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >   
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold/browse_thread/thread/2a...
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Kerry
> >>
> >> Me wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Greetings!  First post.
> >>>       
> >>> I've been greping the web for an AS example of
> populating a parent
> >>> select box, and then dynamically changing a
> child select box through
> >>> an "onchange" event.  I've seen the
> observer approach, but not with
> >>> AS.  Is there support for such a thing?
> >>>       
> >>> I found this thread where this same question
> was asked.
> >>>       
> >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00108....
> >>>       
> >>> The poor guy got a rather prickly
> response.  He eventually posted his
> >>> solution in the last msg of the thread. 
> Unfortunately, I can't get
> >>> that solution to work.  The example [in
> plain English] was, "Surveys
> >>> have many survey_questions and surveys
> have_many survey_options."  If
> >>> options are meant to be answers to questions,
> then it should be
> >>> "Surveys have many questions.  Questions
> have many options [multiple
> >>> choice]."   That would be three
> levels.  I tried looking at the
> >>> survey_options table as some type of join with
> both foreign keys
> >>> [survey_id, survey_question_id].  If that
> were the case, then survey
> >>> "has many questions through
> survey_options."  That wasn't listed in
> >>> the example.  Clearly, I'm confused
> somewhere.
> >>>       
> >>> I would appreciate it if someone could explain
> the example referenced
> >>> in the last message of the thread linked to
> above.  Alternatively. I
> >>> would appreciate a clear example of this
> pattern.  I think that this
> >>> is a common situation where some documentation
> would benefit many
> >>> people.
> >>>       
> >>> Thanks! Paul
> >>>       
> > >
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> > 
> 

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