Question

I have a select_tag to pick items from a list here’s the code:

<%= select_tag "Drinks", options_for_select([ "Water", "Soda", "Beer" ], "Water") %>

After submiting “water” for exemple, it doesn’t show up on the index and show views, on the “Drinks” section.

What am I doing wrong?

Controllers create and update methods

def create
    @facture = Facture.new(params[:facture])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @facture.save
        format.html { redirect_to @facture, :notice => 'Facture was successfully created.' }
        format.json { render :json => @facture, :status => :created, :location => @facture }
      else
        format.html { render :action => "new" }
        format.json { render :json => @facture.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end


def update
    @facture = Facture.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @facture.update_attributes(params[:facture])
        format.html { redirect_to @facture, :notice => 'Facture was successfully updated.' }
        format.json { head :ok }
      else
        format.html { render :action => "edit" }
        format.json { render :json => @facture.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end        

Answer 1

You should use this:

select_tag "facture[drinks]", options_for_select([ "Water", "Soda", "Beer" ], "Water")

The create method is using the values sent in params[:facture] and using “facture[drinks]” will include it as params[:facture][:drinks].