Foreign Key Dropdown in Scaffold Rails 3 Views

Question

I created 2 models using scaffolding with Rails 3. The models are Locations and Jobs and each job has a location.

I created the required reference calls in the scaffold generation code but when I look at the view to create a new job, all I see is a textbox where I should add the location_id.

How can I get that to be a dropdown instead for a better user experience?

A duplicate of [Rails: Scaffold to automatically do one-to-many relationship](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502119/rails-scaffold-to-automatically-do-one-to-many-relationship) The behavior that you want will come from a third party. — givanse, Dec 08 '13 at 17:34

fl00r · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-15T13:48:35.883

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Imagine, that you have got title for each location

<%= f.collection_select :location_id, Location.all, :id, :title %>

API: http://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper/collection_select

edited Oct 15 '14 at 13:48

answered Apr 23 '11 at 19:04

fl00r

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I think this should be `:location_id` otherwise you get an `undefined local variable or method` error. – user000001 Oct 15 '14 at 09:32

Foreign Key Dropdown in Scaffold Rails 3 Views

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