Question

I’m trying to get some forms out, but I’m having trouble, in that HAML is not ordering the options in my select elements properly.

Here is my echo statement:

=select 'user', @empty_data, {"Less than $40k" => 1, "$40k - $70k" => 2, "$70k - $100k" => 3, "$100k+" => 4, "No Thanks" => 5 }

However, when the HTML gets rendered, the options are not in any discernible order, let alone the order I placed them in. Is there something I’m not doing correctly?

Thank you

Answer 1

It’s because the list of option is a list of list. Not a Hash

=select 'user', @empty_data, [["Less than $40k", 1], ["$40k - $70k",2], ["$70k - $100k",3], ["$100k+",4], ["No Thanks",5]]

See the documentation about this helper :

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M002302