Options_for_select order

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I had this problem too. Your values are stored in a hash and hashes
don’t keep their values in the order you added them. As you’re
putting the same text it the value of each option as will appear in
the drop down list you could do this instead:

<%= select ‘project’, ‘status’, %w{ Active MD HOLD Dead } %>

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On Dec 29, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Dylan M. wrote:

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In ruby hashes never gauranteed order. They are essentially randomly

ordered. So you will either need to use a .sort method on them if you
wanted them in alphabetical order or you will need to feed in a
nested array instead like so:

<%= select ‘project’, ‘status’, [[“Active” ,“Active”], [“MD”, “MD”],
[“HOLD” , “HOLD”], [“Dead”, “Dead”] ] %>

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