:prompt on collection_select worked locally but had to change when moving to hosted env

This is sort of a strange one.

I had the following abbreviated form:

<% form_for :product, :url => {:action => "preview_item", :id => @product}, :html => {:multipart => true} do |form| %>                 form.collection_select(:department_id,                     @departments,                     :id, :name,                     {:prompt => "select a department"}) <%end%>

This worked fine with locomotive and with the hosted enviroment I was working with that used mongrel.

I then moved it to a different hosted env using lighttpd and fastCGI. I froze my rails before deploying. When I deployed, I noticed the select statement wasn't being honored. However if I change it to the following:

<% form_for :product, :url => {:action => "preview_item", :id => @product}, :html => {:multipart => true} do |form| %>                 collection_select('product', 'department',                     @departments,                     :id, :name,                     {:prompt => "select a department"}) <%end%>

For some reason, getting rid of the form, adding product and changing department_id to department caused this to work.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks,

Scott

Anyone?

Scott wrote:

<% form_for :product, :url => {:action => "preview_item", :id => @product}, :html => {:multipart => true} do |form| %>

Should that be <% form_for :product, @product, ... ?