Form select should d string equality rather than object equality

rubyonrails-core
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Have you ever had a select box with ActiveRecord id:s as option values and a param from the params hash as selection? Something like this:

<% form_tag do %>   <%= select_tag(:category_id,     options_for_select(Category.all.map { |c| [c.name, c.id] }, params [:category_id])) %>   <%= submit_tag %> <% end %>

I doesn't work since values in the params hash are strings and model ids are integers. I've patched the option_value_selected? method to do comparisons on strings rather than objects:

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/3142-make-select-options-in-forms-symbolstring-indifferent

Comments on this?

Thanks!

Peter Marklund http://marklunds.com