Prompt in select_tag

Question

In my application in user registration I have a country picker..

<%= select(:user, :country, options_for_select(@COUNTRIES)) %>

And I wan

Answer 1

Very simple:

select(:user, :country, options_for_select(@COUNTRIES), :prompt=>true)

For the prompt "Please select", or this for your custom text:

select(:user, :country, options_for_select(@COUNTRIES), :prompt=>"Select country")

Also note that @COUNTRIES is wrong, an instance variable should be lowercase - @countries, a contant would just be COUNTRIES.