Hard coded drop down menu help

I currently have a drop down menu selection in an input form with
hardcoded values, the problem I’m having is I want to use multiple word
entries that users can select from, is there anyway of doing that?

here is my code as it exists now

<%= f.label :category, “Category” %>

<%= select ‘article’, ‘category’, %w(Cooperation
EnvironmentalSustainability BusinessDevelopment Transportation
Streetscape DenseMixedUse) %>

obviously I need some of these to be two words as one entry instead of
being multiple entries

please help!

On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Jimmy P. wrote:

Streetscape DenseMixedUse) %>

obviously I need some of these to be two words as one entry instead of
being multiple entries

please help!

Just skip the shorthand:

[‘Cooperation’, ‘Environmental Sustainability’, ‘Business Development’,
‘Transportation’, ‘Streetscape’, ‘Dense Mixed Use’ ]

Even better might be a model to return the choices.

class Category
def self.choices_for_select
[‘Cooperation’, ‘Environmental Sustainability’, ‘Business
Development’,
‘Transportation’, ‘Streetscape’, ‘Dense Mixed Use’ ]
end
end

<%= select ‘article’, ‘category’, Category.choices_for_select %>

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

Rob B. wrote:

Just skip the shorthand:

It should also work by escaping the spaces:
%w{Cooperation
Environmental\ Sustainability Business\ Development Transportation
Streetscape Dense\ Mixed\ Use}

Note: noticed the curly braces %w{list of words}

thanks guys, that was perfect