Form 'select' question

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Hi, I'd like to make a select element in a form which has the names of months for the user to select, but sends numeric values for each month when the form is submitted.

At the moment I have something like this:

<%= select_tag(:month, options_for_select(%w{ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 }, @params[:month])) %>

But I'd like it to display the month names instead of the numbers. Any ideas?

Thanks Henry

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Ok, I've figured out how to do that, so ignore that last message, but I now have another harder problem! The calendar I'm using displays the current month when the page is loaded and the month can be changed using the select element. However I can't get the select element to show the current month when the page loads. This is my controller code:

class CalendarController < ApplicationController

  before_filter :year, :month

  def index     if @params[:month] == nil && (@params[:year]) == nil       @params[:month] = @month       @params[:year] = @year     end   end

  private

  def year     @year = Time.now.year   end

  def month     @month = Time.now.month   end

end

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// And my view template:

      <%=         calendar(:year => @params[:year].to_i, :month => @params[:month].to_i, :first_day_of_week => 1) do |d|           link_to d.mday, :action => 'day_detail', :id => d.mday         end       %>

      <%= form_tag(:action => :index) %>

        <%= select_tag(:month, options_for_select([["Jan", "1"], ["Feb", "2"], ["Mar", "3"], ["Apr", "4"], ["May", "5"], ["Jun", "6"], ["Jul", "7"], ["Aug", "8"], ["Sep", "9"], ["Oct", "10"], ["Nov", "11"], ["Dec", "12"]], @params[:month])) %>         <%= select_tag(:year, options_for_select(%w{ 2006 2007 }, @params[:year])) %>         <%= submit_tag("Ok") %>

      <%= end_form_tag %>

      <%= @params[:year] %>       <%= @params[:month] %>

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@params[:month] is set to the current month if there has been nothing sent to it by the form. The calendar displays the correct month, as does <%= @params[:month] %> at the bottom. Why does my select list not showw the correct month?

Thanks

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Have you thought about using one of the Rails built in functions?