I live and work in Canada. It follows, then, that I often need to generate a select box for Canadian provinces, especially for my work at Unspace. Jealous of the built-in helper for Rails that implements country selection, I whipped up a simple plugin.
All it does is extend ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper adding the methods province_select, and province_options_for_select.
Get it from subversion via:
svn://visioni.st/p/canadian_provinces
And yes, it includes tests.
I have also published a plugin(state_select). That generates the selection box for the states in the country specified. Usage: state_select(object, method, country=’US’, options = {}, html_options = {}) or state_options_for_select(selected = nil, country = ‘US’)
Curently it can generate state list for India, US, Canada, Australia and Spain(default is US).
visit http://webonrails.com/2006/09/12/plugin-state_select-generate-drop-down-selection-box-for-states/ for details
Akhil, very cool. I wish I had been aware of your plugin before I made this one. I’ll definately check yours out.. thanks for the heads up!
Man you don’t even know how long I’ve waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget (that doesn’t work since Haloscan bypasses that code).