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Ruby on Rails: collection_select

Seifer · 2010-01-23 01:23:14

I have the below in a view and it displays the drop-down menu correctly. <%= collection_select :user, :organisation_id, @all_organisations, :id, :name %> I want to determine what value is currently selected and use it in the view to create a link. So I think I'm looking for some way to address the selection and find it's…

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23-01-2010 2:23am

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Seifer

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I have the below in a view and it displays the drop-down menu correctly.
<%= collection_select :user, :organisation_id, @all_organisations, :id, :name %>

I want to determine what value is currently selected and use it in the view to create a link.
So I think I'm looking for some way to address the selection and find it's current value.
I've tried using its name and id (user[organisation_id], user_organisation_id) but to no avail. Rails complains about an undefined local variable or method in both cases.

Any ideas?

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