# Checkbox instead of dropdown

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/checkbox-instead-of-dropdown/116238>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 3, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/checkbox-instead-of-dropdown/116238 "2007-10-03T19:09:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/checkbox-instead-of-dropdown/116238/1 "2007-10-03T19:09:24Z")

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Hi,

I am a RoR newby. The code below shows the categorie names, in a  
dropdown from the categories table and that works fine. But now i want  
to show the categories through checkboxen. How can i realise that??

 \<% @categories.each do |categorie| %\> \> \<%= categorie.name %\> \<% end %\> 

Grtz…remco

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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/checkbox-instead-of-dropdown/116238/2 "2007-10-03T20:10:10Z")

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On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Remco S. wrote:

> ```
> <option value="<%= categorie.id %>"
> <%= 'selected' if categorie.id == @recipe.categorie_id %>>
> <%= categorie.name %>
> </option>
> 
> ```
> 
> \<% end %\>
> 
> ## Grtz…remco
> 
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).

For this kind of question you should really check the Rails list.

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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/checkbox-instead-of-dropdown/116238/3 "2007-10-03T21:00:12Z")

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Remco S. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am a RoR newby. The code below shows the categorie names, in a  
> dropdown from the categories table and that works fine. But now i want  
> to show the categories through checkboxen. How can i realise that??
> 
> \<% @categories.each do |categorie| %\> \> \<%= categorie.name %\> \<% end %\> 
> 
> Grtz…remco

Check out the rails doc [http://api.rubyonrails.org/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/)

You would put the check\_box inside an iteration. so…  
\<% @categories.each do |category| %\>  
\<%= check\_box(category, name) %\>  
\<% end %\>

~Jeremy