I have a JSON array that was returned from Foursquare; let's call it @venues
. I want to be able to "select" a venue via a drop down box and I want it to be part of a form.
That means I want to be able to select a specific venue by name (i.e. in this case, Hotel Utah Saloon), and save it's id
into a model. To clarify, I will only be saving the venues I select, not all of them.
Through research, I have found myself confused between select
, collection_select
, and select_tag
. Keep in mind that this is JSON directly from a JSON.parse
method and is not a DB model.
How do I create this drop down in a form?
For clarification, @venues
looks something like this:
[
{
"beenHere":8,
"venue":{
"id":"3fd66200f964a52023f11ee3",
"name":"Hotel Utah Saloon",
"contact":{
"phone":"4155466300",
"formattedPhone":"(415) 546-6300",
"twitter":"hotelutah"
},
"location":{
"address":"500 4th St",
"crossStreet":"Corner of Bryant",
"lat":37.77947007181946,
"lng":-122.39816943501836,
"postalCode":"94107",
"city":"San Francisco",
"state":"CA",
"country":"United States",
"cc":"US"
},
"categories":[
{
"id":"4bf58dd8d48988d1e9931735",
"name":"Rock Club",
"pluralName":"Rock Clubs",
"shortName":"Rock Club",
"icon":"https:\/\/foursquare.com\/img\/categories\/arts_entertainment\/musicvenue_rockclub.png",
"parents":[
"Arts & Entertainment",
"Music Venues"
],
"primary":true
}
],
"verified":true,
"stats":{
"checkinsCount":6654,
"usersCount":3330,
"tipCount":50
},
"likes":{
"count":0,
"groups":[
]
},
"beenHere":{
"count":0
}
}
}
]