grouped_collection_select collection filter

rubyonrails-talk
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I am having a hard time to alter the where condition of the grouped_collection_select collection: Country.where("name='Brazil'") not to use hard coded value, but the form value.

This is how it is working: <%= f.grouped_collection_select(:state, Country.where("name='Brazil'").order(:name), :states, :name, :id, :name) %>

This is what I am trying to do: <%= f.grouped_collection_select(:state, Country.where(:name=>:state).order(:name), :states, :name, :id, :name) %>

  <%= form_for(@address, :url => {:action => 'update', :controller => 'addresses', :id => @address.id}) do |f| %>       <%= render "shared/error_messages", :target => @address %>

      <table id="TbUser" summary="User form fields">         <tr>           <th colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; text-align:left">Dados do Cliente</th>         </tr>         <tr>           <th>Endereço</th>           <td><%= f.text_field(:address) %></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <th>Bairro</th>           <td><%= f.text_field(:neighborhood) %></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <th>Cidade</th>           <td><%= f.text_field(:city) %></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <th>Estado</th>

              <td><%= f.grouped_collection_select(:state, Country.where("name='Brazil'").order(:name), :states, :name, :id, :name) %></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <th>Cep</th>           <td><%= f.text_field(:zipcode) %></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <th>País</th>           <td><%= f.text_field(:country) %></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <th colspan="2" style="background-color:white; text-align: center"><%= submit_tag("Atualizar") %></th>         </tr>       </table>       <div>

      </div>   <% end %>

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if you want choose states depending countries, you have to use the ajax way. That is when rails renders the page, it doesn’t know which country you will choose. Thus you have to write javascript code to watch the country field, when it changes, the code sends messages to server and use reponse messages to renew the options.