options_for_select and sorting

rubyonrails-talk
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I have several select options on a form and was planning on using options_for_select.

If I use the code below the options do not appear in order on the form, I am not really sure of the order they are appearing since it is not alphabetical either.

<%= options_for_select({"Co-ed" => "Co-ed", "Men" => "Men", "Women" => "Women", "Please select student body" => "None"}, "None") %>

Would I be better off to use a traditional HTML <option> tag and put my options in the order I want them to display?

For the record this is the order they display now on the form with the code above:

Men Please select student body Co-ed Women

Thanks!

-Scott

2

Instead of a hash, try passing in an ActiveSupport::OrderedHash

options = ActiveSupport::OrderedHash.new options["Co-ed"] = "Co-ed" options[""Men"] = "Men" etc.

It is ugly tho :frowning:

Vish

3

That works, but as you said it is kind of ugly, this is a new user form so I am not worried about making the select's sticky.

Do you see a need to do it this way if the values are static? Or is a regular <option> tag ok?