Rails - Show updated fields when editing - ruby-on-rails

I am rolling my own authentication, and the issue I am running into is the edit form for my users. I here is the form...
#app/views/users/edit.html.erb
<h1>Editing User</h1>
<%= render 'form' %>
<%= link_to 'Show', #user %> |
<%= link_to 'Back', root_path %>
#app/views/users/_form.html.erb
<%= form_for #user do |f| %>
<% if #user.errors.any? %>
<div class="error_messages">
<h2>Form is invalid</h2>
<ul>
<% #user.errors.full_messages.each do |message| %>
<li><%= message %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :email %><br />
<%= f.text_field :email %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :password %><br />
<%= f.password_field :password %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :password_confirmation %><br />
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.select :user_type, options_for_select(['Bar', 'Brewery', 'Restaurant', 'Hotel']) %><br/>
</div>
<div class="actions"><%= f.submit "Sign Up" %></div>
<% end %>
The issue I am having is that when I display the edit form the :user_type field is not correct. I want this field to reflect what is currently saved for the current user, instead I just get the drop down with the first option in the list displayed.

You want to either use:
<%= f.select :user_type, options_for_select(['Bar', 'Brewery', 'Restaurant', 'Hotel'], #user.user_type) %>
or:
<%= f.select :user_type, options_for_select(['Bar', 'Brewery', 'Restaurant', 'Hotel']), :selected => #user.user_type %>

options_for_select has second parameter to preselect it...
options_for_select(['Bar', 'Brewery', 'Restaurant', 'Hotel'], #user.user_type)

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