[Rails] another select_list question - bad bad booleans

[Kevin Olbrich]

I know this doesn't answer your question... it's late here, but why are  
you using a drop down for a binary choice instead of something like a  
check box or radio button?

_Kevin

On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Craig White wrote:
>I have a select list for a boolean column in postgresql
>
>in the 'model' ...
>  YES_NO = [
>    [ "Yes",    "1" ],
>    [ "No",     "0" ]
>  ].freeze
>
>in the 'view code' ...
>
><%= options = [['Accepted?', '']] + Placement::YES_NO
>   select("placement", "accepted", options) %>
>
>When creating new records, I can select Yes or No and it writes the
>proper value to table.
>
>When I edit existing records, unlike other select list menus which
>automatically go to the existing value in the select list, the
>'Accepted' list always displays "Accepted?' (the prompt, never the
>value) in the pop-up selected list, no doubt because it cannot figure
>out the reverse translation of existing column 0's and 1's backwards to
>Yes : No logic.
>
>What is the trick to do that?
>
>Thanks
>
>Craig
>
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