Collection_select help

Hi,
I’m new at this… can you please help me…
the drop down menus are fine, however when i click submit the
selection is not saved and it tells me that movie and type can’t be
blank

Here is my movie_types controller
class MovieTypesController < ApplicationController
before_filter :login_required, :only => [:new, :create]

GET /movie_types

GET /movie_types.xml

def index
@movie_types = MovieType.find(:all)

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # index.html.erb
  format.xml  { render :xml => @movie_types }
end

end

GET /movie_types/1

GET /movie_types/1.xml

def show
@movie_type = MovieType.find(params[:id])

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # show.html.erb
  format.xml  { render :xml => @movie_type }
end

end

GET /movie_types/new

GET /movie_types/new.xml

def new
@movie_type = MovieType.new

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # new.html.erb
  format.xml  { render :xml => @movie_type }
end

end

GET /movie_types/1/edit

def edit
@movie_type = MovieType.find(params[:id])
end

POST /movie_types

POST /movie_types.xml

def create
@movie_type = MovieType.new(params[:movie_type])

respond_to do |format|
  if @movie_type.save
    flash[:notice] = 'MovieType was successfully created.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@movie_type) }
    format.xml  { render :xml => @movie_type, :status

=> :created, :location => @movie_type }
else
format.html { render :action => “new” }
format.xml { render :xml => @movie_type.errors, :status
=> :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end

PUT /movie_types/1

PUT /movie_types/1.xml

def update
@movie_type = MovieType.find(params[:id])

respond_to do |format|
  if @movie_type.update_attributes(params[:movie_type])
    flash[:notice] = 'MovieType was successfully updated.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@movie_type) }
    format.xml  { head :ok }
  else
    format.html { render :action => "edit" }
    format.xml  { render :xml => @movie_type.errors, :status

=> :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end

DELETE /movie_types/1

DELETE /movie_types/1.xml

def destroy
@movie_type = MovieType.find(params[:id])
@movie_type.destroy

respond_to do |format|
  format.html { redirect_to(movie_types_url) }
  format.xml  { head :ok }
end

end
end

view: new.html

New movie_type

<%= error_messages_for :movie_type %>

<% form_for(@movie_type) do |f| %>

Type
<%= collection_select(:type, :type_id, Type.find(:all), :id, :name)%>

Movie
<%= collection_select(:movie, :movie_id, Movie.find (:all), :id, :title) %>

<%= f.submit "Create" %>

<% end %>

<%= link_to ‘Back’, movie_types_path %>

thank you

On Apr 24, 12:39 pm, amna [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
I’m new at this… can you please help me…
the drop down menus are fine, however when i click submit the
selection is not saved and it tells me that movie and type can’t be
blank

Like the other hellers, the first parameter should be the name of the
instance variable, ie ‘movie_type’ in your case. Or, since you are
using form_for, you could use f.collection_select and drop the first
parameter altogether.

Fred

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaank you =D its working now

2009/4/24 Frederick C. [email protected]: