well.. Litwin, i've tried it.. and it shows the drop down list.. but not with the saved data in the selected option, instead, it shows the default value, the one on top of the list.
it supposed to work just like that? is there something i've done wrong, then? On May 28, 1:11 am, "E. Litwin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried using the same collection_select statement on the edit > page? It works for me. > > On May 27, 6:24 am, Mike75 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hi.. > > I'm having a problem with an editing view to show a dropdown list > > withselectedvalue. > > > my tables are as followed > > product table : id | Name | Price | Country_id > > country table : id | CountryName > > > on the product new.htm.erb, I've got the list like this > > <%= collection_select ("product", "Country_id", > > @country, :id, :CountryName) %> > > and it generates <select> html tags and saves good too. > > > now, I'd like to edit the product on the edit.html.erb with the same > > dropdown list with > > collected product.Country_id. > > > <option value = "{product.Country_id}"selected> CountryName</option> > > > anyone knows how to to this? I've tried the rails.api way of doing > > it.. such as > > > select(:product, :Country_id, country.find(:all).collect {|c| > > [ c.CountryName, c.id ] }, {:include_blank => 'None'}) > > and it didn't work.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
