rails collection_select vs. select

Question

collection_select and select Rails helpers: Which one should I use?

I can\'t see a difference in both ways. Both helpers take a collection and

Answer 1

And regarding select, you can use it with a Hash. I used to use it with ENUM.

# In a hypothetical Fruit model
enum types: { 'Banana' => 0, 'Grape' => 1, 'Mango' => 2 }

# In the view
f.select :type, Fruits.types.invert

Note that I had to use invert in order to show the correct value in option:

  Banana
  Grape
  Mango

To refer to it in a show file you can use Fruit.types and this will return our previous Hash. This way you can do:

 Fruit.types[obj.type]

Last note: You can use symbols instead numbers if you prefer enum types: { 'Banana' => :banana, ...and you will get Banana