On Apr 12, 8:59 pm, RichardOnRails <[email protected]> wrote: > PRiyanka and sameera: Thank you both very much!!! I've been pulling > my hair out for about a week with this thing. > > I didn't realize that the first argument of the select_tag function > apparently identifies the target > of the selected item in the format "table_name[column_name]". >
you could have dodged that if you'd gone with f.select :vendor, choices The second parameter to f.select has the same requirements as what you give to options_for_select Fred > > On Apr 12, 2:11 am, Priyanka Pathak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > RichardOnRails wrote: > > > In app\views\expenses\new.html.erb, I (mistakenly) replaced the > > > script/generated: > > > <%= f.label :vendor %><br /> > > > <%= f.text_field :vendor %> > > > with: > > > <%= f.label :vendor %><br /> > > > <% @current_vendors = Vendor.find(:all, :order=>"nickname") %> > > > <%= select_tag "list", options_for_select(@current_vendors) %> > > > > This (if I haven't introduced any typos here) works fine, except that > > > the user-selection doesn't really populate the database's vendors > > > column in the expense record. > > > > How do I repair this situation? I'd like to restore the the original > > > text field and somehow populate it with the user-selected value from > > > the select control. > > > Hi, > > try this <%= select_tag "expense_vendor", > > options_for_select(@current_vendors) %>. > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
