rails select_tag selected value

Question

For the code given below I wanted to keep the select box selected with the value that is passed.

But this doesn’t work:

@yrs =[2011,2010,2009,2008]
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Answer 1

Remove the :selected=> part.

Syntax:

options_for_select(@options, @selected_options)

Usage:

options_for_select(1..5, 3)  # creates a range 1..5 , with 3 as selected by default