# Form.select question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-select-question/118642>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 29, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-select-question/118642 "2007-10-29T18:27:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dave\_Hackenyos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dave\_Hackenyos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Hackenyos)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-select-question/118642/1 "2007-10-29T18:27:13Z")

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Hello,

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I am researching Ruby and Rails and am having a little trouble. I 

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have a form that look like this:

\<% form\_for :book, :url =\> { :action =\> :sort } do |form| %\>  
\<%= form.select :sort\_type,  
Book::SORT\_TYPES,  
:prompt =\> “sort reviews by”  
%\>  
\<%= submit\_tag “Sort”, :class =\> “submit” %\>  
\<% end %\>

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--SORT_TYPES is a hash in the Book model class which presents a 

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couple of choices to the user.  
–when the form is submitted to the sort method, how is the value of  
the drop down trapped in the controller’s sort method? Nothing I  
implement seems to do anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,  
Dave Hackenyos

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Hackenyos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dave\_Hackenyos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Hackenyos)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-select-question/118642/2 "2007-10-29T19:43:18Z")

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Dave Hackenyos wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> ```
> I am researching Ruby and Rails and am having a little trouble. 
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You’ll probably get more response over at the Rails list…

[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en)