Thanks, I will look at the active_scaffold group as well.
If I don't find the answer, I will post there.

On Mar 23, 2:51 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Mar 23, 6:14 pm, Amitabh A <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am running on Rails 2.2.2 on Solaris (and also on my mac) against
> > mysql. For some reason, when I use a select in the partial, the
> > database does not get updated with the changed value. I am using
> > checkbox for other fields which works perfectly.
> > I can provide more information if needed, but I would like the field
> > to work as a dropdown instead of a text field.
>
> ActiveScaffold expects things to be named in particular ways, I expect
> the select box you've generated isn't created parameters named the way
> it wants. You might be able to work out what the parameters should
> look like by letting activescaffold generate what it wants (ie don't
> use your partial) and seeing where the differences are. There's also
> an activescaffold google group out there.
>
> Fred
>
> > My Model:
> >       has_and_belongs_to_many :industries, :join_table =>
> > "grant_loans_industry", :foreign_key =>
> > "grant_loans_id", :association_foreign_key => "industry_id"
> >       belongs_to :state
>
> > My Controller:
> >   before_filter :login_required
>
> >   layout "admin"
> >   active_scaffold :grant_loan do |config|
> >     config.list.columns = [:agency, :gov_type, :title, :url]
> >     config.columns.exclude  :state_name
> >     config.label = 'Grants and Loans'
> >     columns[:state].form_ui = :select
> >     columns[:industries].form_ui = :select
> >   end
>
> > Partial:
> >         <%=  select :grant_loan, :business_type, 
> > ['for_profit','non_profit'],
> > {:selected => @record.business_type, :prompt => "Select The Business
> > Type"}, {} %>
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