select box pre-selecting an option

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Can anyone please tell me what's going on here, I've copied something pretty much directly from rails guides, but it's just not doing what it's supposed to!

(Or I'm doing something stupid!)

rails - 3.2.2 ruby 1.9.3

my view has the following

1 - <% formations_array = @formations.map { |f| [f, f] } %> 2 - <%= formations_array.each do |f| f.to_s end%> 3 - <%= f.select(:formation_csv, options_for_select(formations_array, 2)) %>

1. the array of arrays is created from the @formations 2. prints this array of arrays [["4-3-3", "4-3-3"], ["5-3-2", "5-3-2"], ["4-4-2", "4-4-2"]] (as I expect)

3. creates the select box, and hard coded asks for index 2 to be currently selected, as on rails docs here : <%= options_for_select([['Lisbon', 1], ['Madrid', 2], ...], 2) %>

However when I look at the page, the wrong selection is selected, always index 0, not index 2.

Can anyone please tell me what's going on here! Or is this a bug?

Thanks,

Michael

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Can anyone please tell me what’s going on here, I’ve copied something

pretty much directly from rails guides, but it’s just not doing what

it’s supposed to!

(Or I’m doing something stupid!)

rails - 3.2.2

ruby 1.9.3

my view has the following

1 - <% formations_array = @formations.map { |f| [f, f] } %>

2 - <%= formations_array.each do |f| f.to_s end%>

3 - <%= f.select(:formation_csv, options_for_select(formations_array,

2)) %>

You are using f.select, rather than select_tag. This doesn’t require options_for_select. It will select the :formation_csv from the form’s model.

I don’t know what your model is, but let’s say it’s Team.

In your controller:

@team = Team.new

@team.formation_csv = “5-3-2”

In your view:

<%= form_for @team do |f| %>

<%= f.select(:number, formations_array) %>

<% end %>

That will select 5-3-2. If you load the model from the db, it will use the saved value automatically.

Also, I don’t think you need line 1. If you pass an array of values, Rails will use them for both text and value, so line 1 is redundant.

Does that all make sense?

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Thanks for that, it works exactly as you said! cheers, now I have the line

<%= f.select(:formation_csv, @formations) %>

and it magically knows which one to select.

I'm still v curios as to why the "options_for_select(formations_array, 2)" didn't do anything, is it because when I'm using this in conjunction with the form_helper, ie f.select as opposed to select_tag, the options_for_select method becomes redundant, or different?

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Thanks for that, it works exactly as you said! cheers, now I have the

line

<%= f.select(:formation_csv, @formations) %>

and it magically knows which one to select.

I’m still v curios as to why the "options_for_select(formations_array,

2)" didn’t do anything, is it because when I’m using this in conjunction

with the form_helper, ie f.select as opposed to select_tag, the

options_for_select method becomes redundant, or different?

Yeah, it’s redundant. Your code was also wrong :slight_smile: The second paramater needs to be the value of the selected object, not the array index. So options_for_select(formations_array, “5-3-2”) would probably have worked. It’s a bad idea though in a resource-based form though.

Glad you’ve got it sorted! My experience with Rails says if something feels like it’s getting unnecessarily complex, you’re probably doing it wrong! :slight_smile: