How to use Rails select with ransack

Question

I need to use Rails select method as oppose to *text_field* to search for legacy data. Unfortunately, one of the attributes in the Project's table is capitalized, and even if I use alias_attribute on it, it still complains for correct naming from the actual table. The code blow works to a point, but instead of passing the Project_cont as the name value in the params, I get an id for that Description. How can I make this work? Here is the current code I have at the moment:

 = search_form_for @search, :html => {:class => "form-inline"} do |f|
      .form-group
        = f.select :Decsription_cont, options_from_collection_for_select(Project.all, "id","Description", @search)

Here is the controller's code:

    def index
      @search = Project.search(params[:q])
      @products = @search.result
    end

Here is the view's code:

   = search_form_for @search, :html => {:class => "form-inline"} do |f|
     = f.select :Decsription_cont, options_from_collection_for_select(Project.all, "id","Description", @search.description_cont)
     = f.submit

Danny Danny · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-06T06:22:25

You should add description_cont to your @search, like this:

f.select :description_cont, options_from_collection_for_select(Project.all, "id", "description", @search.description_cont)

How to use Rails select with ransack

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