I use simple_form in my app.

How do i give the blank value in my selects a different text than "" ?

I just find an option to include blank or not.

• ruby-on-rails
• ruby-on-rails-3
• forms
• simple-form

Ben,

It depends on how you are constructing your options for select. If you're doing it like the code below, just pass a string into the :include blank.

select("post", "person_id", Person.all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, {:include_blank => 'Some text here'})

If you're setting the options with a options_for_select(), then you can do something like the following:

options_for_select([["Dollar", "$"], ["Kroner", "DKK"]])

With the value="" being the second value in the array and the name that shows up in the dropdown being first. So in your case, you could change the second answer to look like this:

options_for_select([["Some text here", ""], ["Dollar", "$"], ["Kroner", "DKK"]])

Instead of

:include_blank => true

Try

:include_blank => "your text here"

if this is what you are looking.

If you are using the select_tag(name, option_tags = nil, options = {}) function, the correct option is :prompt => "Some text" rather than setting a string value for select

You can do this manually by adding ["Your Text", ""] to the beginning of the array passed to options_for_select, or add "<option value=\"\">#{h("Your Text"}</option>" to beginning of the string passed to select_tag.