[Rails] Re: rails 3.1 select multiple with serialized data

Happens every time - I find the problem after the post.

In the rails 3.0 version I capitalized the roles.
In the rails 3.1 version I lower cased the roles.

One of the few things I hate about ruby/rails case sensitivity.

On Aug 18, 9:05 am, AppleII717 <sa...@mac.com> wrote:
> In my Users model I have
>
> serialize :roles
>
> Letting it default to yml
>
> I enter roles as a text array. e.g.,
>   u.roles = ["member","scorer"]
>
> It displays as an array
>
> @user.roles.type  returns Array
>
> All is fine except if I try to use the select form helper to input the
> values with multiple => true
>
> I've tried several version and I can't get the set values to trigger
> selected in the options tag.
>
>  f.select(:roles, options_for_select(role_options,@user.roles),{},
> {:multiple => true, :size => 5})
>  f.select(:roles, role_options,{},{:multiple => true, :size => 5})
>
> (role_options is a helper method that return an array of valid role
> options.
>
> I had this working under 3.0, but using a kludge to put roles into a
> json hash.
>
> Steve

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