Keeping search selections

Rails
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Hey people,

I was wondering if there’s an easy way in rails to have select dropdowns
keep the option that was selected before a search is performed.
According to someone I work with it is possible to do this in an easy
way in rails, so I hope anyone can point me in the right direction…

Many thanks,

Danny

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I’m just guessing here but sounds like sessions or cookies, probably
sessions, is the key. Anyone got experience with this? I dunno myself.

RSL

On 3/14/07, Daniel Owen van Dommelen [email protected]

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Russell N. wrote:

I’m just guessing here but sounds like sessions or cookies, probably
sessions, is the key. Anyone got experience with this? I dunno myself.

RSL

On 3/14/07, Daniel Owen van Dommelen [email protected]

Yes, this options, while it’s probably possible to go this way, I would
really like to find a cleaner method to do so. The problem is that the
selects are generated using rails helper methods and the options are
automatically generated from arrays defined in application_helper.rb.
This makes it so I can’t use a for loop or whatever to check if the
current equals the stored session/cookie data… I am SO sure
rails must have thought of this before…

thanks anyway though…