How to have a drop down <select> field in a rails form?

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iCyborg picture iCyborg · Jan 1, 2013 · Viewed 173.2k times · Source

I am creating a scaffold -

rails g scaffold Contact email:string email_provider:string

but I want the email provider to be a drop down (with gmail/yahoo/msn as options) and not a text field. How can I do this ?

Answer

R Milushev picture R Milushev · Jan 1, 2013

You can take a look at the Rails documentation . Anyways , in your form :

  <%= f.collection_select :provider_id, Provider.order(:name),:id,:name, include_blank: true %>

As you can guess , you should predefine email-providers in another model -Provider , to have where to select them from .

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