Rails: getting multiple selected values from selection box

Posted on November 6, 2006 by awmanoj

I got stuck for last half an hour at ‘getting the values of multiple selected items in a muliple selection box’ using Ruby/Rails. Got it after hard ‘googling’ and got the solution here.

When trying to get multiple selected values from a <SELECT> tag into @params, call your parameter something with [] on the end. That way rails knows it’s multiple.

So instead of

<select name="job[techs]" size="5" multiple="multiple">

Use:

<select name="job[techs][]" size="5" multiple="multiple">

Thanks google and Ruby/Rails community !

Filed under: Programming, Rails, Ruby, technical

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3 Responses

  1. Micah, on January 6th, 2007 at 9:29 pm Said:

    Thanks for posting this. It fixed me up in 30 seconds!

    You can also use the select_tag like so:

    true%>

    This assumes that you have “has_many :techs” in your Job class.

  2. Micah, on January 6th, 2007 at 9:31 pm Said:

    ack! The thing ate all my text since it contained brackets… dang…

    select_tag “job[tech_ids][]“, options_from_collection_for_select(@all_techs, “id”, “name”), :multiple=>true

  3. Jared, on February 2nd, 2007 at 9:01 pm Said:

    Thanks! This was just what I needed.

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