Preselect Check box with Rails Simple_form

Question

I'm using Simple_Form with Rails 3 and it's great. I have a simple question. I can create a check box using f.input if the type is boolean behind the scenes. However, I would like it to be preselected as true.

Is there a way to do this via the view?

Answer 1

If you don't want to, or cannot update your migration to do 'PerfectlyNormal's answer, then you can add the following to the end of your f.input:

:input_html => { :checked => true } 

So, it would become:

= f.input :some_flag, :input_html => { :checked => true } 

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

the best way would be to set the default value in your model, something like

create_table :my_table do |t|   ...   t.boolean :my_boolean, :default => true   ... end 

which simple_form will pick up on, and set the checkbox to be checked by default.

A simpler way is to do it as Dave says, and just force the value to 1, but if a validation fails, and you display the form again, it will still be checked, regardless of how it looked when the form was submitted.