collection_select with an index

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I'm new to Rails, this is my first try, so be gentle, I tried to google but could solve my problem. :slight_smile:

I'm trying to use the index-option of, for example, the text_field in a collection_select. I found out that collection_select expects the index in the html_options instead of the options as in text_field. I found a similar problem http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/b3ccd87b74c6ab9b/bf6d5440d0ffefe8, but it had no effect on my output. ATM I'm using:

line_f.collection_select :char_id, @chars, :id, :firstname, :prompt => "Choose character", "index" => 1

But the html output remains as follows:

<select id="line_char_id" name="line[char_id]"><option [...]

I expected something like 'id="line_1_char_id" name="line[1][char_id]"'. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

TIA, Jakob