Rails 3 - Make a “link to” using selected value from collection select

Hello everyone.

I have a form in my ruby 1.9.2 rails 3.0.9 app, and one of the fields
is a “collection select” like this

<%= f.label :provider_id, "Provider" %> <%= collection_select( :purchase_document, :provider_id, Provider.all, :id, :name) %>

The idea, is to be able to add a “link_to” using the selected value
from the “collection select” i.e.:

<%= f.label :provider_id, "Provider" %> <%= collection_select( :purchase_document, :provider_id, Provider.all, :id, :name) %> <%= link_to "Show", provider_path(***selected option from collection select***)%>

But, I don’t know how to get the selected value. Is there a rails way
to do that?

Hope you can help me, thanks

On Oct 19, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Angelo C. wrote:

But, I don't know how to get the selected value. Is there a rails way to do that?

Hope you can help me, thanks

There’s two ways to do this, which one you choose depends on what stage
you want the choice to be made in. If you want to submit a form to the
controller, and then have the controller redirect based on the value of
that select, you could do something like this (post to a “redirect”
method):

def redirect
@provider = Provider.find(:whatever_your_model_is[:provider_id]])
redirect_to @provider
end

If you want this redirect to happen in the browser, without touching the
server, then you would just observe the change event on the picker, and
redirect based on that.

document.observe(‘dom:loaded’, function(){
$(‘whatever_your_model_is_provider_id’).observe(‘change’,
function(evt){
if(!!$F(this)){
window.location.href = ‘/providers/’ + $F(this);
}
});
});

Walter

Great!!!

Thanks for your help

On 27 July 2013 02:06, yash shah [email protected] wrote:

Dear Sir,
I have a similar issue. Here is my code:

Much TLDR. Also you replied to a thread that is two years old, so any
comments there may well be out of date. Start a new thread, explain
exactly what your problem is (one problem only in a posting otherwise
the thread will get confusing) and post just the relevant section of
code that you cannot get to work. Try to get the post down to around
20 lines total and you will have a good chance of someone reading it
and trying to help.

Colin

Dear Sir,
I have a similar issue. Here is my code:

Add New Investment Opportunity

<%= form_for Investopp.new do |f| %>

<%= f.label :state_id %>
<%= f.collection_select :state_id, Investopp.year_lookup(@state_ids), :label, :value, include_blank: true %>
<%= f.label :city_id, "city" %>
<%= f.grouped_collection_select :city_id, Investopp.year_lookup(@state_ids), :cities, :value, :id,:name, include_blank: true %>
<% end %> <%= link_to 'Back', investopps_path %> <%= link_to 'Search', investopps_browsedisplay_path %>

Here is the model(investopp):

class Investopp < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :Address, :Buildingname, :Desiredinvrole, :Details,
:Prefferednoofinvestors, :Salesprice, :Weblisting, :photo, :user_id,
:state_id, :city_id, :state, :city

has_attached_file :photo, :styles => { :small => “200x200>” }
belongs_to :user
validates :Buildingname, presence: true
validates :Address, presence: true
validates :Desiredinvrole, presence: true
validates :Weblisting, presence: true
validates :Details, presence: true
has_many :states
has_many :cities
def find_state(id)
if !id || id==0
id=1
end

  @states= State.find(id)
  @states.name

end
def find_city(id)
if !id || id==0
id=1
end

  @cities= City.find(id)
  @cities.name

end

def self.year_lookup(state_ids)

#create an emptycollection to hold the LabelValue Objects
years = []

state_ids.each do |yr| y = LabelValue.new()
y.label = yr
y.value = State.find_by_id(yr).name
years.push(y)
end

years

end

def self.state_lookup(state_ids)
years = []

state_ids.each do |yr| y = State.new()
y= State.find_by_id(yr)
years.push(y)
end

years

end

end

class LabelValue

name the accessors. Label and Value

attr_accessor :label, :value

def cities
cityids=[]
state_cities=[]

investopps=Investopp.find(:all)
investopps.each do |i|
puts i.city_id
cityids <<i.city_id
end
cityids.uniq!

states=State.find_by_id(label)
cityids.each do |c|
if states.cities.find_by_id©
state_cities<< states.cities.find_by_id©
end

end

state_cities
end

end

Here is the controller:

class InvestoppsController < ApplicationController

GET /investopps

GET /investopps.json

def index
@investopps = Investopp.where(:user_id => current_user.id)

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # index.html.erb
  format.json { render json: @investopps }
end

end

GET /investopps/1

GET /investopps/1.json

def show

@investopp = current_user.investopps.find(params[:id])

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # show.html.erb
  format.json { render json: @investopp }
end

end

GET /investopps/new

GET /investopps/new.json

def new
@investopp = Investopp.new

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # new.html.erb
  format.json { render json: @investopp }
end

end

GET /investopps/1/edit

def edit
@investopp = Investopp.find(params[:id])
end

POST /investopps

POST /investopps.json

def create

#params[:investopp][:state_id]= “gopi”
#params[:investopp][:city_id]= “33”
@investopp = current_user.investopps.build(params[:investopp])

respond_to do |format|
  if @investopp.save
    format.html { redirect_to @investopp, notice: 'Investopp was

successfully created.’ }
format.json { render json: @investopp, status: :created,
location:
@investopp }
else
format.html { render action: “new” }
format.json { render json: @investopp.errors, status:
:unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end

PUT /investopps/1

PUT /investopps/1.json

def update
@investopp = Investopp.find(params[:id])

respond_to do |format|
  if @investopp.update_attributes(params[:investopp])
    format.html { redirect_to @investopp, notice: 'Investopp was

successfully updated.’ }
format.json { head :no_content }
else
format.html { render action: “edit” }
format.json { render json: @investopp.errors, status:
:unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end

DELETE /investopps/1

DELETE /investopps/1.json

def destroy
@investopp = Investopp.find(params[:id])
@investopp.destroy

respond_to do |format|
  format.html { redirect_to investopps_url }
  format.json { head :no_content }
end

end

def lis
@state_names=[]
@state_ids=[]
@city_ids= []
@city_names=[]
@investopp = Investopp.find(:all)
@investopp.each do |item|
@state_names<< State.find_by_id(item.state_id).name
@state_ids<< item.state_id
@city_names<< City.find_by_id(item.city_id).name
@city_ids << item.city_id
end
puts @state_ids.uniq!{|i| i}
puts @city_ids.uniq!{|i| i}

puts "gopi"
respond_to do |format|
  format.html { render "investopps/lis", :locals => { :state_ids =>

@state_ids, :city_ids => @city_ids, :investopps => @investopp } }
format.json { render json: @investopp }
end
end

def redirect
@state = State.find(:investopp [:id])
redirect_to @state
end

end

My aim is to display the selected value from the drop down list on the
other page. I tried applying the redirect method in the controller but I
am
not able to display the selected value.
Please help. I am stucked up badly. Thanks in advance.