Populating Select Box from DB table

Rails
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Hi everyone,
I have in a DB table item id’s (ints) and what i’d like to do is
populate a select box (in another separate ruby app) with the
corresponding name of each item. What’s the best way to go about that -
this isn’t working too well for
me(http://www.protoscript.net/article/4/ruby-on-rails--filling-select-boxes)

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There’s always 8 ways to skin a cat in RoR, but here’s one…

<%= select(“object”, “method”, Item.find_all.collect { |i| [ i.name,
i.id ] }) %>

The “object” and “method” will be advised by how you wish to use the
field once you get it back to the controller/action of the form. For
instance,

<%= select(“order_line”, “item_id”, Item.find_all.collect { |i| [
i.name, i.id ] }) %>

…will populate params[:order_line][‘item_id’] with the id of the item
you choose in the list.

c.

August wrote:

Hi everyone,
I have in a DB table item id’s (ints) and what i’d like to do is
populate a select box (in another separate ruby app) with the
corresponding name of each item. What’s the best way to go about that -
this isn’t working too well for
me(http://www.protoscript.net/article/4/ruby-on-rails--filling-select-boxes)