GUI - lists, drop-down menus and all that

Rails
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Hello,

Can anyone please point me in the right direction -

I would like the user to be able to select options from drop down menus
and for the app to get the information from the database.

Where do I find out about GUI stuff??

Chris

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Chris F. wrote:

Hello,

Can anyone please point me in the right direction -

I would like the user to be able to select options from drop down menus
and for the app to get the information from the database.

Where do I find out about GUI stuff??

Chris

Chris,

I suggest acts_as_enumerated for a plugin. Create a list of values
table (or whatever) with key | value pairs and use it to generate your
list. The view code would then look something like this (taken from my
app):

				<td width="20%" valign="top" class="dataField">
					<%= select (:order, :order_status, OrderStatus.all.collect {|s| [

(s.value), s.value ]}, { :include_blank => true } %>

In this example, OrderStatus is the type I setup per the instructions
via acts_as_enumerated.

This caches the values so you aren’t doing a lookup every time. If you
need the lookup done every time then this isn’t a good solution for you.
I use it for status values, state picklists, etc… Basically, anything
that doesn’t change frequently.

Regards,

Michael

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