On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Gu stav <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a dropdown using collection_select. However, I cant > seem to get it to select the right option by default. > > In my controller I have a setup like this: > > @content = Content.new > @content.selection_id = 3 > @selections = Selection.find(:all) > > In my view I have: > > <% form_for :content, @content, :url => { :action => 'create' } do |f| > %> > <%= f.collection_select :selection, @selections, :id, :name %> > <%= submit_tag 'Create' %> > <% end %>
The first thing that sticks out is it should be :selection_id instead of :selection. > Despite me specifying the default value in the controller, > collection_select doesnt seem to pick that up when rendering the html, > which defaults to the first option in the dropdown. > > What idiot-simple thing am I missing? ;) And if that doesn't fix it, then my only other suggestion would be to make sure you have selection_id set as an integer in the database. I've accidentally created a foreign key as a string before, which works fine mostly, except when trying to do a select box and it's comparing integers to strings. Hope that helps. -- Brandon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Training by Collective Idea: Ruby on Rails training in a vacation setting http://training.collectiveidea.com – San Antonio, TX – Jan 20-23 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
