[LRUG] Advice on the correct (RoR) way to set up an input field

[John Winters]

Codepope wrote:
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> On 5/27/07, *John Winters* <john at sinodun.org.uk 
> <mailto:john at sinodun.org.uk>> wrote:
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>     Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do the above?  Am I going
>     about it in the wrong way?  Obviously it's simple enough to do if I
>     ignore Rails and do it on my own, but I can't help feeling I'm doing it
>     wrong if I don't make use of the framework.
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> A bit of a google came up with
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> http://typo.railsstudio.com/articles/2006/03/31/multi-select-list-boxes-in-ruby-on-rails
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> which shows how to add appropriate options and an example of parsing the 
> results from the form.
> For a slightly more complex recipie,
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> http://www.telefonica.net/web2/bizarro/blog/2006/04/how-to-use-multi-select-list-boxes.html 
> <http://www.telefonica.net/web2/bizarro/blog/2006/04/how-to-use-multi-select-list-boxes.html>
> 
> comes with it's own helper, but specifically addresses HABTM.

Ta muchly - it's knowing what to google for which makes the difference.

Cheers,
John