Ah ha, I figured it out. In my migration, I had accidentally specified that the product_id column should be a string, instead of an integer. Once I changed the type, everything worked great.
Regards, Eric On Jan 2, 3:06 am, emarthinsen <[email protected]> wrote: > One more thing. I debugged my app and when I inspect my @order object, > the product field is being correctly set. I debugged a little deeper > and it looks like at some point, Rails is trying to decide to set a > particular option to selected by evaluating something like the > following (assuming product id 7 was selected): > > "7" == 7 > > It looks like, for the purpose of setting my model's attributes, the > product id is being turned into an integer, but for selecting a value > in collection_select, it is keeping it a string. Very confusing. > > -Eric > > On Jan 2, 2:56 am, emarthinsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello- > > > I have a form that I'm using form_for on to bind the form to my order > > object. Within the form, I want to select a product (each order has > > one product, which makes this easy). In my order and product models, > > an order belongs_to a product. I didn't specify that a product > > has_many orders (although I did test that the problem still exists > > even if I do specify that). Here's the code I'm using to generate the > > select list: > > > @packages = Package.find(:all, :order => 'name') #this is in my > > controller > > > <%= f.collection_select :product, @products, :id, :name, { :prompt => > > '--select one--'} %> > > > The call to collection_select creates the list of options just fine, > > but if my order has a value set for product, it doesn't get set as the > > selected value. > > > I've tried a slew of other variations on the call to collection_select > > (e.g., using :product_id instead of :product) and all seem to fail. > > > Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? > > > Regards, > > Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
