# Select\_tag selected value?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-selected-value/90610>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 30, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-selected-value/90610 "2007-03-30T08:59:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-selected-value/90610/1 "2007-03-30T08:59:21Z")

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Situation:  
Administrative control panel which lists users and allows mass updates  
of attributes from a single screen.

My code:  
\<%= select\_tag(“person[#{person.id}][role]”, 'user

admin', options = {:selected =\> person.role}) %\>

Rendered HTML:

 user admin

Problem:  
“admin” isn’t selected when it should be! all people have “user”  
selected regardless of role defined in the DB. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taylorstrait](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taylorstrait)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-selected-value/90610/2 "2007-04-04T08:31:57Z")

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there’s something you perhaps need!  
[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/98281#208304](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/98281#208304)