Great!!! Thanks for your help
On 19 oct, 21:44, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Angelo Cordova wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > I have a form in my ruby 1.9.2 rails 3.0.9 app, and one of the fields > > is a "collection select" like this > > > <div class="field"> > > <%= f.label :provider_id, "Provider" %> > > <%= collection_select( :purchase_document, :provider_id, > > Provider.all, :id, :name) %> > > </div> > > > The idea, is to be able to add a "link_to" using the selected value > > from the "collection select" i.e.: > > > <div class="field"> > > <%= f.label :provider_id, "Provider" %> > > <%= collection_select( :purchase_document, :provider_id, > > Provider.all, :id, :name) %> <%= link_to "Show", > > provider_path(***selected option from collection select***)%> > > > But, I don't know how to get the selected value. Is there a rails way > > to do that? > > > Hope you can help me, thanks > > There's two ways to do this, which one you choose depends on what stage you > want the choice to be made in. If you want to submit a form to the > controller, and then have the controller redirect based on the value of that > select, you could do something like this (post to a "redirect" method): > > def redirect > @provider = Provider.find(:whatever_your_model_is[:provider_id]]) > redirect_to @provider > end > > If you want this redirect to happen in the browser, without touching the > server, then you would just observe the change event on the picker, and > redirect based on that. > > document.observe('dom:loaded', function(){ > $('whatever_your_model_is_provider_id').observe('change', function(evt){ > if(!!$F(this)){ > window.location.href = '/providers/' + $F(this); > } > }); > > }); > > Walter > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://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.
