From: Marcello Henrique <faraohh@...>
Date: 2011-01-26T19:20:22+09:00
Subject: Re: dynamic drop down list

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 00:00, Dan Thomas <danthom1000@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to make a drop down list from an array.  For now, just hard
> coding, later will use an actual array. This is in an erb file.
>
> The first problem is that I can't find documentation on "select".  Is it
> a function, a class?  (I'm new to Ruby).  Can you point me to the
> documentation?
>
> The second problem is that according to some forums, the following
> should work, but it doesn't, and  I can't figure out the error message.
>
>
> <%= select("borrowers", "borrower_id", [ ["name1", "value1"],["name2",
> "value2"],["name3", "value3"]]) %>
>
> ERROR:  wrong argument type String (expected Array)
>
> I have tried everything. Thanks!

You can do how follow:

<% menus_list = [["name1", "value1"], ["name2", "value2"], ["name3",
"value3"]] %>
<%= select("borrowers", "borrower_id", options_for_select(menus_list)) %>

Hugs.
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