Check Bok Tag Checked Issue

Rails
1

I am new to RoR development and I am trying to set the checked value of
a
check_box_tag field, but no matter what I set the checked value to I get
the box checked.

My controller is as follows:

@all_ratings = ['G', 'PG', 'PG-13', 'R', 'NC-17']
@selected_ratings = params[:ratings] ? params[:ratings].keys :

@all_ratings
@rating_flags = []
@all_ratings.each do |rating|
if @selected_ratings.include?(rating)
@rating_flags << “checked = true”
else
@rating_flags << “checked = false”
end
end

My view is the following:

  • @all_ratings.each do |rating|
    = rating
    = check_box_tag(“ratings[#{rating}]”, value = 1,
    “#{@rating_flags[@all_ratings.index(rating)]}”)
    = submit_tag ‘Refresh’, :id => ‘ratings_submit’

When the @rating_flags comes from the controller it has the following
values according to the debugger:

[“checked = false”, “checked = true”, “checked = false”, “checked =
false”, “checked = false”]

And the values of the check boxes are as follows:

Include: G PG PG-13 R NC-17

I have not added anything to the model it is just inheriting from
ActiveRecord::Base.

It looks as if the values are being saved in the controller, because if
I
make changes to the check boxes and refresh I get the expected result.

The only thing that does not work is the checked value of the check
boxes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

2

On Sunday, October 21, 2012 1:56:34 PM UTC+1, Stephen Harnois wrote:

  • @all_ratings.each do |rating|
    = rating
    = check_box_tag(“ratings[#{rating}]”, value = 1,
    “#{@rating_flags[@all_ratings.index(rating)]}”)

Rails is expecting a truthy value: false or nil if the box shouldn’t be
checked, or anything else to make the box checked. It isn’t expecting an
html attribute string. You’re passing a string which always counts as
true,
since it is neither falsde nor nil. If you
use @selected_ratings.include?(rating) instead that should do the trick.

Fred