this works great but when the client hits submit and there are other
validation errors
it resets the drop down menu.
how do i maintain the selected item.
my search for the options of the slect method has come up empty.
@list is created in the controller and used in the view.
can you not test :choice to see if the user has choose an item and
then display the drop down with the correct item selected.
1 <select id="stuff_item_id" name="stuff[item_id]">
2 <% if @stuff.item_id == 0 or @stuff.item_id == nil -%>
3 <option value="" selected="selected" >Please Selected An Item</
4 <% end -%>
5 <% @items = Item.find(:all, :order => "name")
6 @items.each do |item| %>
7 <option value="<%= item.id %>"
8 <% if @stuff.item_id == item.id -%> selected="selected"<% end -%>
9 >
10 <%= item.name %> (<%= item.description %>)
11 </option>
12 <% end %>
13 </select>
is this the only method to handle a drop down menu.
looks like it is comparing the value selected with the item and then
setting to selected.
this would be a pain if you have a lot of drop down menus in an
application.
any suggestions to preserving the item selected by a user. the items
of the drop down menu do not come from a simple search, at times they
are combined from multiple searches, but basically i have an array,
with display item, id# which is passed to the view.