How do I set an option as selected using Selenium WebDriver (selenium 2.0) client in ruby

Question

I am trying to get familiar with the new ruby selenium-webdriver as it appears more intuitive mostly than the previous version of selenium and the ruby driver that went with

Answer 1

require "selenium-webdriver"
webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox

driver.navigate.to url

dropdown = webdriver.find_element(:id,dropdownid)
return nil if dropdown.nil?
selected = dropdown.find_elements(:tag_name,"option").detect { |option| option.attribute('text').eql? value}
 if selected.nil? then
  puts "Can't find value in dropdown list"
 else
  selected.click
 end

In my case this is only one working sample.