Question

I have an interests table that only has a :name attribute.

I’m trying to seed (via seed.rb) the following array so that they all display in my form (checkbox)… How would I do that?

Is there a better way than storing this in seed.rb?

[ "Adventure Sports", "Arts and Crafts", "Beauty/Hair", 
  "Books", "Dining Out", "Fine Art", "Fine Jewelry", 
  "Gardening", "Golf" ]

Answer 1

If you want to put it into your seed.rb, you create them like you would elsewhere, e.g.

[ "Adventure Sports", "Arts and Crafts"].each do |interest|
  Interest.create!({:name => interest})
end

Alternatively, you could store them in your Model as a constant and use that in your form.

class Interest < ActiveRecord::Base
  INTERESTS = [ "Adventure Sports", "Arts and Crafts" ]
end

And then in your form e.g.:

f.select Interest::INTERESTS