On 4 August 2010 14:15, disruptive tech <[email protected]> wrote: > Colin Law wrote: >> On 4 August 2010 11:10, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> the id and country name for each item in @country list? Doing that >>>> UK Show Edit Destroy >>>> France Show Edit Destroy >>>> Germany Show Edit Destroy >>> >>> Is that from code inserted in the view at the same point as the >>> collection_select? >> >> You replied showing the trace (but not actually as a reply to this >> post) but did not answer the above question >> >> Colin > > Problem solved, I had not put the @country_list into the other methods - > such as the index one. This now worked and I can create a drop down > populated from the table.
Hmm, so the error in new.html.erb was due to the fact that you had not populated @country_list in the controller#index. I think not. > > Now I am presuming the select statement will pop the id into the country > field in my created users table. However I cannot seem to find it in the > actual data tables. No idea what you are talking about. All a select does is to allow a selection. > > Plus also how best to validate drop down boxes? Validation is nothing to do with how the data are selected. It is purely a verification of the data as it goes into the db via the model. Colin > > -- > Posted via http://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. > > -- 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.
