How to make the select_tag keep value of last search?

Question

I have a dropdown of prices using a select_tag, but each time I use the dropdown to set a price and then do the search then the values in the dropdowns go back to their default

Answer 1

:selected should point to the last element of the array element that you want to pre select.

Try

<%= select_tag(:max, options_for_select([['$100,000', 100000], ['$200,000', 200000], ...['$20,000,000', 20000000]], :selected => 1000000)) %>

If you want to keep the value from your current request you may go for

<%= select_tag(:max, options_for_select([['$100,000', 100000], ['$200,000', 200000], ...['$20,000,000', 20000000]], :selected => params[:max])) %>

See options_for_select on the Rails API as well.