How to have a drop down <select> field in a rails form?

Question

I am creating a scaffold -

rails g scaffold Contact email:string email_provider:string 

but I want the email provider to be a drop down (wi

Answer 1

Please have a look here

Either you can use rails tag Or use plain HTML tags

Rails tag

<%= select("Contact", "email_provider", Contact::PROVIDERS, {:include_blank => true}) %>

*above line of code would become HTML code(HTML Tag), find it below *

HTML tag

  
  yahoo
  gmail
  msn