Setting selected option in select

Rails
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I am working on employee scheduling app and am trying to set a drop down
list for store hours. I am having trouble setting a default selected
for the list. Anybody have any suggestions. example code is below:

I have an array set in model Storeday

TIME_TYPES =[
[ “12:00am”, “0:00” ],
[ “12:15am”, “0:15” ],
[ “12:30am”, “0:30” ],
[ “12:45am”, “0:45” ],
[ “1:00am”, “1:00” ],
[ “1:15am”, “1:15” ],
[ “1:30am”, “1:30” ],
.
.
.
.
[ “11:00pm”, “23:00” ],
[ “11:15pm”, “23:15” ],
[ “11:30pm”, “23:30” ],
[ “11:45pm”, “23:45” ]
].freeze

In my controller I set
<%time_choices = Storeday::TIME_TYPES%>

Then I have a select helper

  <%=select("storeday", "open_time", time_choices, options =

{:selected => “1:00”})%>

Using this code I can’t get the selected to default to the time I want.
Any suggestions??

Thanks

Alex

2

Alex,

i might have a solutions. Maybe the code I give can make it work,
after that yo can fine tune it. Here’s what I did:

In my model (like you did):

TIME_TYPES =[
[“12:00am”,“01:00” ],
[“01:00am”,“02:00” ],
[“02:00am”,“03:00” ],
[“04:00am”,“05:00” ]].freeze

In my Controller:

def page
@time_choices = Mymodel::TIME_TYPES
end

I made my time_choices available for my view.
Maybe you don’t need to do that!

In my view page.rhtml

<% 4.times do |i| %> > <%= @time_choices[i][0]%> <% end %>

<% 4.times do |i| %> =
is the amount of ‘rows’ in @time_choices

@time_choices[i][1]%> =

01:00
02:00
03:00
05:00

@time_choices[i][0]%> =

12:00am
01:00am
02:00am
04:00am

<%= ’ selected’ if @time_choices[i][1] == ‘02:00’ %>
selects the option with value 02:00
(= 01:00am in selectmenu)

I’ll hope you’ll have some usefull information here.
micheldogger

3

For you’re info,

I’ve been trying to make :selected work, in you’re code:

<%=select(“storeday”, “open_time”, time_choices,
options = {:selected => “1:00”})%>

I’ve tried any possible way I no, but I couldn’t figure it out.
Maybe someone else?

micheldogger