Filter results on index page from dropdown

Question

I\'m using rails 3 and I have two models, venues and areas where each area has many venues and each venue belongs to one area.

I\'m trying to find a way of filtering the

Answer 1

You can find the Venues in your controller depending on whether an area is selected or not. You can modify the view to send the area name, instead of the area id(which might make it easier):

<%= select("area", "name", Area.all.collect(&:name)) %>

The controller would look something like this -

def index
  if (params[:area] && Area.all.collect(&:name).include?(params[:area][:name]))
     @venues = Venue.send(params[:area][:name].downcase)
  else
     @venues = Venue.all
  end
end