collection_select

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I have posted before about collection_select but have not gotten what I am working on to work. I have even searched the archives for similar discussions and am at a little bit of a loss because some have claimed to have fixed the problem but I still can't get it to work for me.

What I am trying to do is simply add the :selected option to the collection_select helper. This is what I got:

<%= collection_select("user", "w_country" , Countrycode.find( :all, :order =>   'country' ), :id, :country, :selected => 159573, :onchange => func ) %>

I simply want it to select the country code that has the specified id. The onchange is for when a selection is made the drop down reverts back to a link on a form. Has anyone gotten the combination of these two to work? Thanks,

-S

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I had something similar.

What I ended up doing is manually coding the select tag, and then adding an 'options for select' tag underneath within the manual select tag.

Works fine.

Remember, the helper methods are there to help, but if they get in the way, don't be afraid to get rid of them - or make a new one that does exactly what you want.

Mikel