Ruby on Rails select_tag default value

02-Mar-2009 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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When using the Rails helper select_tag, the selected value (ie highlighted value) is a parameter to options_for_select, not select_tag. Eg:

Number of Rows: <%= select_tag(:numrows, options_for_select(%w{10 20 50 100 200 500}, session[:numrows])) %>

(much head-banging-against-wall went into working this out…)

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7 Responses to Ruby on Rails select_tag default value

  1. Mark20-May-2009 at 05:27

    Spam alert above! Thanks for this lil tidbit. Good to know.

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  2. Sonia20-May-2009 at 11:25

    Thanks Mark. Spam zapped – somehow it slipped thru…

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  3. akahn21-Aug-2009 at 07:31

    Thanks, this helped me out!

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  4. Bishnu Pandey11-Dec-2009 at 17:41

    Good tips.This really helped me. I have come across this problem twice. This is the second time i face the same problem. Why, there is not standard for the selection in rails.

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  5. Divya21-Nov-2010 at 14:15

    Thanks for this snippet… Really helped me a lot… @ the right time too.. :)

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  6. Aj Banda21-Sep-2011 at 17:13

    thanks for this.. highly appreciated! :)

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