On 17 June 2010 12:17, Miguel.camba <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my current application, i have food categories: mexican, home made,
> japanese, ect
> As these categories only have ID and name, no other attributes, i dont
> want to create a table on the DB.
> My first idea was to create a constant named FOOD_CATEGORIES, that is
> has like:
> FOOD_CATEGORIES = { 1=>'mexican',
>                                       2=>'japanese', ... }
> BUT, since the hash doesn't have :id method, i dont know how to use
> this constant on a collection_select in my views.
>
> Do you have a better idea?

Maybe options_for_select is what you are looking for.

Colin

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