Listboxes in forms

Rails
1

Hi,

I have a form with a set of fields. All these fields belong to a table
called Textmaze. One of the form fields is a list box. This list box
gets it’s values from an existing table called Scenario in the
database. On submission of the form, it should create a record in a
table. Connection between these two tables looks like this:

class Textmaze < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :starting_scenario,
:class_name => “Scenario”,
:foreign_key => “starting_scenario”

end

My form code looks like this:

 <select id="textmaze_starting_scenario"

name=“textmaze[starting_scenario]”>
<% @scenarios.each do |scenario| %>

<%= scenario.title %>

<% end %>

When I submit the form I get an error saying “Scenario expected, got
String”

Instead of I tried supplying the id
of the Scenario record but even that doesn’t seem to work. What could
be wrong?

How can I get reference to another table’s record into my table?

2

Hi,

I think you better use the built in select_option method from Ruby On
Rails. If you would have in your text_maze_controller.rb something like
this:

def ‘edit’
@textmaze = Textmaze.find(params[:id])
@scenarios = Scenario.find(:all)
end

then you can use in your _form.rhtml view of your Textmaze something
like this:

<%=
collection_select(“textmaze”,“starting_scenario”,@scenarios,“id”,“title”)
%>

It helps to keep the view clean. This answer comes from a ROR user for
four evenings.

Best regards,

Mark N.

3

From your description, it seems the problem is in the form action
method inside your controller. By the way, yes, you should code the
option value as . This will provide
the key for doing a find on Scenario.

The error is saying you supplied a string, rather an instance of
Scenario, probably as a parameter to something. I would check your code
that deals with Scenario. If you get stuck post the code up here.

-Paul