Multiple selectbox and params

Rails
1

Hi there,

I’m having some trouble figuring this one out:
I have a multiple select box. Selecting one option, the value gets
submitted just fine. Selecting two or more options, it’s only the last
selected that get’s submitted.
Why?

Greetings,
Gitte W.

2

How are you using the select box? Are you tying it right to the model
class?
If so this isn’t going to work (that I know of).
Your tag should look something like:

.. Of course with all the other stuff needed as well. You'll notice the name is basically an array name which will allow you to pass as many values as you want for this option and can get it by doing something like params[:my_options][0].

Hope this helps!
-Nick

3

I had a similar problem yesterday, even the same perhaps?

My guess is that it is in fact submitting all the values as an array but
you are not seeing it selected in the form because all the values in the
array are strings and not numbers.

What I did was before using the array in “selected_value” I turned all
the elements in the array to integers using to_i

Hope that helps you out.

4

I’m doing something similar that uses muliple select menus.

Here is the controller

def new()
  @side_menu = [ build_text_box('Instructions:', @required_text) ]

  if request.get?()
    @institution = Institution.new()
  elsif request.post?()
    if params[:commit].eql?('Cancel')
      redirect_to(:action=>'list')
      return nil
    else
      @institution = Institution.new(params[:institution])
      @institution.add_license_types_by_id(params[:license_type_ids])
      if @institution.save()
        flash[:notice] = 'Institution was successfully created.'
      	redirect_to :action=>'list'
      end
    end
  end

  @license_types = LicenseType.find(:all);
  @license_type_ids = []
  @institution.license_types.each { |x| @license_type_ids << x.id }
end

Here is code from my view


<% options =
      options_from_collection_for_select(@license_types,
                                        "name", "id", @license_type_ids) 
%>
<%= select_tag("license_type_ids[]", options, {:multiple=>true, 
:size=>3}) %>

Hope this helps.

-Steven

5

Nick S. wrote:

Hope this helps!
-Nick

Hi Nick,

Yeah it helped a lot - I didn’t know you had to put [] on the name of
the input tag.

Well I actually have another problem, because I’m using the multiple
select in a form that’s an AJAX observe_form. I’m not sure how to pass
the selected values in the :with parameter.

Greetings,
Gitte W.

6

Glad it helped! Not so sure about the ajax part though. Only have used
the very basic parts of that as of yet.