Select or select_tag

Rails
1

Which is the easiest to implement in a Rails app view when pulling data
from tables? select or select_tag?

Thank you,

Rachel S Nichol
Oracle Developer
Hargray Telephone Company

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I believe they’re fairly equivalent WRT populating them w/values.

I think the main distinction is whether you’re feeding the selected
value into a form that builds a model object or not. If you’re in a
form_for block, then select is easier (e.g., it uses the context of the
form builder to save you from having to worry about how the value gets
serialized in the params hash). If you’re in any other kind of form,
then select_tag may be necessary.

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Which is the easiest to implement in a Rails app view when pulling data
from tables? select or select_tag?

Thank you,
Rachel S Nichol
Oracle Developer
Hargray Telephone Company

Positive Exchange of Control

Hargray’s mission: To envision and deliver customer delight

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