With the code I have below in the select field I have all the public_campaigns:
<%= f.select :campaign_id, #public_campaigns.map{|x| [x.name,x.id]} %>
public_campaigns is defined in controller with:
#public_campaigns = #logged_in_user.campaigns.order('created_at desc')
In the form I select the campaign and fill up the rest of the form and at the submit action an invitation is created with campaign_id taken from the campaign I selected in the form, it can be anything from 1 to n
What I need now is to have a default item in select field that will have the value of 0 and named "No campaign", it means I invite someone to a campaign that I have not created yet and in invitation the campaign_id field will be 0.
Thank you for your time.
Do you really need 0? I think use of {:include_blank => "No campaign"} should be enough?
Try this:
<%= f.select :campaign_id, (#public_campaigns.map{|x| [x.name,x.id]} << ["No campaign",0]), {:selected => 0} %>
Well, the fastest way you can do this is something like this:
#public_campaigns = #logged_in_user.campaigns.order('created_at desc')
no_campaign = Campaign.new(:id => '0', :name => 'No Campaign')
#public_campaigns.unshift(no_campaign)
I'm not sure why you are unable to do it this way:
<%= f.collection_select :campaign_id, #public_campaigns, :id, :name, prompt: 'No campaign' %>
Just check if campaign_id.nil? instead of assigning any value to campaign_id
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I'm building an app for a restaurant and I have a form where I add meals to an order and a price field gets dynamically updated depending on what dishes and how many of them you pick.
To do that I built a nested form (I think that doesn't matter anyway) which looks as follows:
.nested-fields
= f.collection_select(0, #dishes.collect{ |dish| [dish.name, :data => {:description => dish.price}]}, :name, :name, {include_blank: true}, {class: "meal-select"})
= f.select :quantity, options_for_select((1..10))
= f.text_field(:price, disabled: true)
= link_to_remove_association "X", f
The thing that bugs me is the collection_select. As you can see, I am returning an array with a name and a data-description which goes to the HTML tag. Based on the data-description, my price field gets updated.
However, I have no idea what method I should choose to extract the name of a dish. As you can see I tried 0 since name of the dish is always first in the array. I have also tried :first, :name but none of those works! The error I get is:
"NoMethodError in Orders#new
undefined method '0' for #Meal:0x007fe4eb8e26c8"
or when I use :name
undefined method `name' for ["Zupa z Krewetkami", {:data=>
{:description=>17.0}}]:Array
Naturally, it points to:
= f.collection_select(0, #dishes.collect{ |dish| [dish.name, :data => {:description => dish.price}]}, :name, :name, {include_blank: true}, {class: "meal-select"})
I don't think the problem lies in my controller but, I'll show it just in case:
def new
#dishes = Dish.all
#order = current_user.orders.build
end
I tried looking for an answer here but as you can see the problem has not been solved and it was slightly different than mine.
To sum up - my question is what method I should use to extract name of the dish from my array in collection_select. Thanks!
Here is how you can use collection_select
...
= f.collection_select :meal_select, #dishes, :name, :price, {include_blank: true}, {class: "meal-select"}
...
For more details see the docs.
Use below approach
options_for_select( [['First', 1, {:'data-price' => 20}],
['Second', 2, {:'data-price' => 30}]] )
= f.select :meal_select, options_for_select(#dishes.collect{ |dish| [dish.name, dish.price,{'data-description' => dish.price}]}), :class => 'meal-select'
I'm building a simple form to let users of my rails 4 site message each other.
In the form, the user can select the recipient of the message with a select list of all the users in the system (it's a small user base).
Right now the form control looks like this, and works fine:
<%= f.select(:to_id, options_from_collection_for_select(User.all, :id, :first_name), {}, {:class => 'form-control'}) %>
However, there's a "nickname" field in the Users table as well-- I'd like to have the form show the nickname (if it exists) as well as the user's first / last name-- so the value of the select would be:
<option>Snoop Dogg - Calvin Broadus</option>
rather than just
<option>Calvin</option>
Is this possible?
Make a display_name on the Users model
def display_name
nickname || first_name
end
Then update your form to reference it
<%= f.select(:to_id, options_from_collection_for_select(User.all, :id, :display_name), {}, {:class => 'form-control'}) %>
I'll start off with a bit of context to my question. I have a group of offices which each have reviewers associated with them. A reviewer can only be associated with one office. I want to create two select boxes. One lists all of the reviewers that are associated with the office I am viewing, the other lists all of the reviewers that are available (which is basically all of the reviewers that aren't already assigned to this office).
The goal of the current reviewer's listbox is to set their office to nil when they are selected. The goal of the available reviewers listbox is to set their office to this office's id when they are selected. I'm not sure how to change only the reviewers' office_id when using a select box.
Code-wise, what I have so far is this:
office_controller.rb
def edit
#office = Group.find params[:id] if params[:id]
#current_reviewers = Reviewer.find_all_by_group_id(#office.id)
#available_reviewers = Reviewer.where('group_id <> ?',[#office.id])
end
def update
?
end
office/edit.html.erb
<% form_for(#office, :url => {:controller => :office, :action => :update, :id => #office.id}, :html => {}) do |f| %>
...
<%= select_tag 'removedReviewers', options_from_collection_for_select(#current_reviewers, "id", "display_name"), :multiple => true %>
<%= select_tag 'chosenReviewers', options_from_collection_for_select(#available_reviewers, "id", "display_name"), :multiple => true %>
...
<% end %>
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I solved this by adding the ability to get a select_tag to get the selected objects as a collection via the [] modifier of the select_tag name. So, in this example it was:
<%= select_tag 'removedReviewers[]', options_from_collection_for_select(#current_reviewers, "id", "display_name"), :multiple => true %>
And for the controller code to handle it, I did this:
#removedReviewers = params[:removedReviewers]
if !#removedReviewers.nil?
#removedReviewers.each do |reviewer|
#reviewer = Reviewer.find(reviewer)
#reviewer.group_id = nil
#reviewer.save
end
end
And the equivalent for the chosen/available reviewers.
I have a form that I want to validate if an option has been selected.
I do not want to accept the default starting option, "Please Select a Product"
I using this now and get a uninitialized contant error. I believe I am writing the syntax wrong.
Controller:
validates :product_name, :presence => { :unless => (product_name = "Please Select a Product")}
View:
<span class="span5 pagination-right">
<%= f.label "Product" %>
<%= f.select :product_name, options_for_select([ ["Please Select a Product"] ]) %>
</span>
How am I supposed to have the option written?
Thank you
The product_name is changed like this:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#ticket_product_name').html("<option>Please Select a Product</option>");
$('#ticket_firmware_version_string').html("<option>Please Select a Firmware</option>");
$('#category').change(function(){
$('#ticket_product_name').html("<option>Please Select a Product</option>");
$('#ticket_firmware_version_string').html("<option>Please Select a Firmware</option>");
if ($('#category').val() == "blah")
{
$('#ticket_product_name').append("<option>blah</option>");
$('#ticket_product_name').append("<option>blah</option>");
}
else if ($('#category').val() == "another category")
{
$('#ticket_product_name').append("<option>blah product</option>");
}
until end of options, end script.
I think what you are looking for is a placeholder for this select. In this case, I used a disabled option:
<% options = options_for_select(["Select an option", ["Product #1",1], ["Product #2",2]], disabled: "Select an option") %>
<%= f.select :product_name, options %>
You should use include_blank from the select helper, like this:
<%= f.select :product_name, options_for_select([["opt1",1],["opt2",2]]), include_blank: true %>
and then, on model
validates :product_name, :presence => true
#MrYoshiji commented something truthful in my answer - if you are not allowing it to be blank, the easy way is simply not add a blank option in the select
I would recommend to use the :prompt option for your select helper (the documentation on this isn't quite straight forwward, but it's ok in this version of the same thing: http://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/FormTagHelper/select_tag). This allows you to define a helper string of text to encourage the user to select an option, but will submit a nil value back when the form is submitted.
<%= f.select :product_name, PRODUCT_NAME_OPTIONS, prompt: 'Select an option' %>
The next thing I'd recommend is... instead of validating presence of on the model, do a validates_inclusion_of. This way you can define the set of options in the model and then use that same set of options in the select helper, above, as well is in your validation. This way you know the form wasn't manipulated to include a different option and it actually keeps things a bit DRYer.
Product
PRODUCT_NAME_OPTIONS = {'opt 1' => 'opt1', 'opt 2' => 'opt2'}
validates_inclusion_of :product_name, :in => PRODUCT_NAME_OPTIONS.values, :message => 'choose from the available options'
Instead of making this too complicated, I just added a length validation since the default is much longer then the product names. Simple is best, however there should be a string validator option.
validates :product_name, presence: true, length: {
maximum: 21,
too_long: ": Must select a product"
}
i have a simple dropdown like :
<%= collection_select("user_cities", "city_id", current_user.cities, :id, :name ) %>
current_user.cities is an array of the user cities. Each city has a field named "is_primary" and only one city has it set as true.
My question is, how can i make the above collection_select(or transform it if needed), so that it picks the selected option, based on City.is_primary ?
From the docs:
By default, post.person_id [in your case user_cities.city_id] is the selected option. Specify :selected => value to use a different selection or :selected => nil to leave all options unselected.
Armed with that knowledge we can pass the appropriate option to collection_select:
<%= collection_select "user_cities", "city_id", current_user.cities, :id, :name,
:selected => current_user.cities.detect(&:is_primary).id
%>
collection_select("user_cities", "city_id", current_user.cities, :id, :name,{:selected => current_user.cities.where(:is_primary => 1)})
I would start by defining a method called primary_city in your User model.
def primary_city
cities.where(:is_primary => true).first
end
Then,
<%= collection_select("user_cities", "city_id", current_user.cities, :id, :name, { :selected=> current_user.primary_city.id } ) %>