Dropdown-Select for a database table

Question

I simply want to have a dropdown menu which will have all the rows of a table as its choices. How do I achieve that? Let's say I have a model "Student" and I want to have the "name" property to be displayed in the choices.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use select, for example:

select(:model, :attribute, Student.all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] })

Answer 2

Here is some info on using collection selects...

http://www.fmhcc.com.au/ruby/rails/using-collection_select-in-rails/