Problems with select and :prompt => "--select--"

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I have a select list with three options. When I am adding a new product I want the selected item to be "--select--" when I go to update I want the selected item to come from the object data. My code looks like this

<%=     select (         "product",       :product_type_id,             ProductType.find(:all, :order => "label").map {|type| [type.label, type.id]},                   :prompt => "-- Select --"       )     %>

Even when my object is @product.product_type_id = 0 I don't ever see the --select-- unless I set :selected => nil

What am I doing wrong?

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jake wrote:

Even when my object is @product.product_type_id = 0 I don't ever see the --select-- unless I set :selected => nil

The :prompt option only adds the prompt if the selected value is either nil or the empty string. So you'll either have to change the DB field to "default NULL", or manually generate your own prompt option.