Radio_button method does not recognize int values?

Rails
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So the api listing says that radio_button(object, method, tag_value,
options = {}) gives a radio button tag, and if object.method ==
tag_value, then the button will be checked.

I verified the method behaves correctly for attributes of type string.
However, if the attribute is of type int, it doesn’t make the button
checked.

Does anyone have some information before I file a bug?
Some tricks to make it work?

Ezra Nugroho

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Ezra Nugroho wrote:

So the api listing says that radio_button(object, method, tag_value,
options = {}) gives a radio button tag, and if object.method ==
tag_value, then the button will be checked.

I verified the method behaves correctly for attributes of type string.
However, if the attribute is of type int, it doesn’t make the button
checked.

Does anyone have some information before I file a bug?
Some tricks to make it work?

Ezra Nugroho

Ezra,
I ran into the same problem. But i think i’ve found a solution:

I have the following table:

Table: accounts
id :integer
…
…
foo :integer (this is the field with value for the radio
button)

edit.rhtml

Here i have the following options, for the user to select:

<%= radio_button(“account”,“foo”, “1”) %>
<%= radio_button(“account”,“foo”, “2”) %>

show.rhtml

My show view, shows the data for account with the instance
variable @account, but to make my Radio-buttons work properly
(I want the correct radio button to be selected) I had to do
the following:

<%= radio_button(“account”,“foo”,“1”, :disabled => true) %>
<%= radio_button(“account”,“foo”,“2”, :disabled => true) %>

After that the show.rhtml showed the Radio Buttons and the
the correct Radio Button will be selected, based on the value
in in the table accounts and attribute foo.

micheldogger

3

Plus,

don’t use TINYINT(1) as Datatype in MySQL.
Rails will return the values as True of False.

micheldogger

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Michel Dogger wrote:

Plus,

don’t use TINYINT(1) as Datatype in MySQL.
Rails will return the values as True of False.

micheldogger

Aha! Thanks for comfirming that! I had a lot of trouble figuring that
one out when I was working through the otherwise-excellent “4 days with
rails” tutorial!
Cheers
Mohit.

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Got it! Thanks guys!