# Country\_select in Rails 2.3.2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 28, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151 "2009-03-28T19:52:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151/1 "2009-03-28T19:52:22Z")

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Hello,

I have this code for country\_select

\<%= country\_select :user, :country, nil, {:include\_blank=\> true},  
{:class=\>“topicField”} %\>

Used to work for Rails 2.0.2 but as I’m trying to upgrade to Rails 2.3.2  
I’m getting the following error:

undefined method `country\_select’ for #ActionView::Base:0x24779b0

any ideas?

Thanks,

Tam

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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151/2 "2009-03-28T21:47:07Z")

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I figured it out: country\_select is deprecated but you can still use it  
as:

\<%#= country\_select :user, :country, nil, {:include\_blank=\> true},  
{:class=\>“topicField”} %\>

But its definitely better some plugin instead of using deprecated method

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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151/3 "2009-03-28T22:01:06Z")

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2009/3/28 Tam K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> I figured it out: country\_select is deprecated but you can still use it  
> as:
> 
> \<%#= country\_select :user, :country, nil, {:include\_blank=\> true},  
> {:class=\>“topicField”} %\>

Haven’t you just commented it out with \<%# ?

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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151/4 "2009-03-29T13:19:10Z")

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Also seams to me he just commented it. Or is that (#=) some strange  
magic? lolol

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**Author:** ![tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tkbeili](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tkbeili)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/country-select-in-rails-2-3-2/164151/5 "2009-03-28T22:18:41Z")

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On Mar 28, 9:00 pm, Colin L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Haven’t you just commented it out with \<%# ?  
> Yup. country select was extracted into a plugin:  
> [GitHub - rails/country\_select: NOTICE: official repository moved to https://github.com/stefanpenner/country\_select](http://github.com/rails/country_select/tree/master)

Fred