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Ruby

Posted by Tony McKeown
Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points

select2 forms help

I've tried to follow the quick tip video from Jason link but I'm a little bit confused about how to implement it.

I had a text_field where you could manually type in the names of a performer like this: 

<%= f.text_field :performer %>

I wanted to replace this with a select2 lookup which looked up my users and once I've selected a user I would then assign this to to the performer field. 

<form> 
  <%= select_tag "performer", options_from_collection_for_select(@user, "id", "profile_name"),
 include_blank: true, id: "performer", 
data: { placeholder: "Choose a performer" } %>
</form>

The select box works and I can find and select my users but I'm not sure how to write it so that it takes this value and enters it into the performer field.

Can anyone help?

2 Answers

Tony McKeown
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Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points
Tony McKeown
Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points

Anyone? :-( I imagine it's pretty simple, I just don't know how to construct it.

Tony McKeown
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Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points
Tony McKeown
Tony McKeown
Courses Plus Student 14,300 Points

Sorry to bump this again (last time I promise!) but I'm still unsure how to construct this. I've even asked on stackoverflow and not got a response.

Can anyone help me? Before I have to beg Jason Seifer ?