rails 4 populate dropdown values from database

Question

I have a dropdown in a rails form:

<%= f.select :lists, [[\"test1\", 1], [\"test2\", 0]] %>

This works fine but how can I make it dynamic

Answer 1

Don't quite have enough reputation to respond to your question in the thread above @learner but there's a good chance that @overflow didn't have @list defined in his controller.

To solve my case I put my equivalent of @list (in this case @restaurants) in my "def new" method since I was using it to help create new items with associated restaurants.

# GET /specials/new
  def new
    @special = Special.new
    @restaurants = Restaurant.all // Look Here
  end

Additionally, :all_val in the original response should be the parameter you want to pass in to the database. In my case it was :restaurant_id