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Easy Form Drop-Downs With Collection_Select
You have a sales-agent model that has a customer. You want a drop-down selection of all customers in the system, and you want to assign the customer ID to the sales agent. How do you do this? Rails has a collection_select helper for this–you pass in the model instance name, the collection, the ID field, the display field, and Rails handles the rest! Continue reading