On Jul 13, 2:03 pm, RichardOnRails <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Assuming Vendor belongs_to :expense then > > f.collection_select :vendor_id, @vendors, :id, :name > > would do the trick > > Au contraire: My concept is that every Expense belongs to some > Vendor. However, every Vendor can have many different Expenses > (incurred, as it were, at various times). Sorry I worded that one back to front > > But I like your f.collection statement, though I feel I need to set > @vendors somewhere to: > @vendors = Vendor.find( :all, order=:>”nickname ASC”), > perhaps just before the collection_select statement or in the Vendor’s > controller (but within what method?) you would indeed, typically within whatever action this is for (so in this case the new method) > > Here’s what I wound up with in app\views\expenses\new.html.erb: > <%# New version of vendor selection -%> > <% @vendors = Vendor.find( :all, :order=>"nickname ASC") -%> > <%= f.collection_select(:vendor, :vendor_id, > @current_vendors, :id, :nickname) %> > <%# End of New version -%> > > That gave me: > undefined method `merge' for :nickname:Symbol (referencing the > collection_select line) > It's getting confused because the first argument to collection_select(:vendor) shouldn't be there (so it thinks that your last parameter is a hash of options, but it's the symbol nick_name instead) -- 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.
