Question

I’m looking at the simple-form-bootstrap page and I can’t figure out how to render check boxes.

Let’s say I have four check boxes corresponding to four boolean table columns like in the example: Blog, Editorial, Announce, Advertisement.

The code looks like so:

<%= f.input :content_type, :collection => content_type_options, :as => :check_boxes %>

I’m guessing content_type_options would be an array of the four aforementioned checkboxes, right? Well what do I put for :content_type?

Answer 1

simple_form will bind the selected options to the params[:content_type] variable.

Note: content_type_options can also be a hash containing pairs of option/value. e.g. {‘Blog’ => ‘blog’, ‘Editorial’ => ‘editorial’, …}