So, I decided, for better or worse, to play around with Expression Engine a little bit. I don’t know why. Maybe I got bored with WordPress. Maybe I just wanted to try something different. Maybe I’m experimenting. Who knows. Anyway, I go about installing EE, which is obviously not as easy to do as WordPress….by which I mean, you need to set up your database yourself and do all the uploading through ftp etc etc…..call me spoiled, but with WordPress being such a de-facto standard, my webhost has a one click install for it which does everything for me. Not that I’m complaining, it was far from difficult to do, though probably not the sort of thing your nan would be comfortable with. You know, setting up a new mysql database and user and all of that is not something the average non-techy person should need to do in this day and age. Of course that sucks if you just want a blog on your webspace and you don’t feel like paying someone to install it for you, but you know, thems the breaks (you could always hire me to get you up and running – I’m not cheap, but I am good 
….eh who am I kidding, I’m cheap like a two dollar tunaslut, but I’m so good you’ll keep coming back for more ). (more…)
Seriously, this is like something out of the future. This in on and Android phone. I’m not an iPhone person – does this exist for Apple’s great contender yet?
Right…..who wants to hire me? I need to save some pocket money for one of these
If you are just looking for some help without reading my rambling post……
the short answer is, collection_select – something like this:
< %= collection_select(:city, :country_id, @countries, :id, :country_name, {:prompt => false}) %>
not f.select as I did the first time round
< %= f.select('country_id', @countries.collect {|r| [h(r.country_name), r.id] }, { :include_blank => false }) %>
Middle eight caveat. Okay, it isn’t really the middle eight yet in terms of post lenght, but what the hey. I’m no Rails expert. In fact I’ve really only dabbled in it – so I’m happy to be shown better ways to do anything here. Don’t take my word as gospel because I’m new to Ruby on Rails….and I’m a bit of a lazy developer.
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