Question

I am trying to make the default value for the country input in a form to be “United States”. I am using the simple form gem and country select gem.

In the simple form initializer, I set this default

  config.country_priority = [ "United States" ]

Which makes the topmost value correct as United States, but the default value is ‘Uganda’.

In the _form view, I did the following:

<%= f.input :country, :default => [ 'United States' ] %>

I restarted Rails and it still defaulted to Uganda.

I also tried the following:

<%= f.input :country, :default => 'United States' %>

and

<%= f.input :country, :selected => 'United States' %>

What should I try next?

Answer 1

I ended up not using the gem — too much complexity. I just created a constant COUNTRIES and used that instead.