From: Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T04:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: checkbox instead of dropdown

Remco Swoany wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a RoR newby. The code below shows the categorie names, in a
> dropdown from the categories table and that works fine. But now i want
> to show the categories through checkboxen. How can i realise that??
> 
> 
> 
>  <select name="recipe[categorie_id]">
>    <% @categories.each do |categorie| %>
>        <option value="<%= categorie.id %>"
>          <%= 'selected' if categorie.id == @recipe.categorie_id %>>
>          <%= categorie.name %>
>        </option>
>    <% end %>
>   </select>
> 
> Grtz..remco

Check out the rails doc http://api.rubyonrails.org/

You would put the check_box inside an iteration. so..
<% @categories.each do |category| %>
  <%= check_box(category, name) %>
<% end %>

~Jeremy
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