Plugin: state_select, generate drop down selection box for states

Here is a patch to add Australian states:

Index: lib/state_select.rb
===================================================================
— lib/state_select.rb (revision 1)
+++ lib/state_select.rb (working copy)
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
US_STATES=["Alaska", "Alabama", "Arkansas", "Arizona", "California", "Colorado", "Connecticut", "Washington D.C.", "Delaware", "Florida", "Georgia", "Hawaii", "Iowa", "Idaho", "Illinois", "Indiana", "Kansas", "Kentucky", "Louisiana", "Massachusetts", "Maryland", "Maine", "Michigan", "Minnesota", "Missourri", "Mississippi", "Montana", "North Carolina", "North Dakota", "Nebraska", "New Hampshire", "New Jersey", "New Mexico", "Nevada", "New York", "Ohio", "Oklahoma", "Oregon", "Pennsylvania", "Puerto Rico", "Rhode Island", "South Carolina", "South Dakota", "Tennessee", "Texas", "Utah", "Virginia", "Vermont", "Washington", "Wisconsin", "West Virginia", "Wyoming"] unless const_defined?(“US_STATES”)
INDIA_STATES=["Andhra Pradesh", "Arunachal Pradesh", "Assam", "Bihar", "Chhattisgarh", "New Delhi", "Goa", "Gujarat", "Haryana", "Himachal Pradesh", "Jammu and Kashmir", "Jharkhand", "Karnataka", "Kerala", "Madhya Pradesh", "Maharashtra", "Manipur", "Meghalaya", "Mizoram", "Nagaland", "Orissa""Punjab", "Rajasthan", "Sikkim", "Tamil Nadu", "Tripura", "Uttaranchal", "Uttar Pradesh", "West Bengal"] unless const_defined?(“INDIA_STATES”)
CANADA_STATES=["Alberta", "British Columbia", "District of Columbia", "Manitoba", "New Brunswick", "Newfoundland and Labrador", "Northwest Territories", "Nova Scotia", "Nunavut", "Prince Edward Island", "Saskatchewan", "Ontario", "Quebec"] unless const_defined?(“CANADA_STATES”)
+ AUSTRALIA_STATES=["Australian Capital Territory", "New South Wales", "Northern Territory", "Queensland", "South Australia", "Tasmania", "Victoria", "Western Australia"] unless const_defined?(“AUSTRALIA_STATES”)
end

class ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag
Index: README
===================================================================
— README (revision 1)
+++ README (working copy)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
Usage:
state_select(object, method, country=’INDIA’, options = {}, html_options = {})

- Currently it supports only India, US and Canada
+ Currently it supports only India, US, Canada and Australia

If you want to add other country plese send me the list of states and I will add them.

ES_STATES=[ "Alava", "Albacete", "Alicante", "Almeria", "Asturias", "Avila", "Badajoz", "Barcelona", "Burgos", "Caceres", "Cadiz", "Cantrabria", "Castellón", "Ceuta", "Ciudad Real", "Cordoba", "Coruña, A", "Cuenca", "Girona", "Granada", "Guadalajara", "Guipuzcoa", "Huelva", "Huesca", "Islas Baleares", "Jaen","León", "Lleida", "Lugo", "Madrid", "Malaga", "Melilla", "Murcia", "Navarra", "Ourense", "Palencia", "Palmas, Las", "Pontevedra", "Rioja, La", "Salamanda", "Santa Cruz de Tenerife", "Segovia", "Sevila", "Soria", "Tarragona", "Teruel", "Toledo", "Valencia", "Valladolid", "Vizcaya", "Zamora", "Zaragoza"] unless const_defined?(“ES_STATES”)

Is there something available, or could you possibly write something to provide easy validation that verfies an actual entry was submitted? I would rather not write out all 50 states, and I think it’d be an improvment to the plugin.

Thanks,
Ryan

Thanks Chuck Phillips,
I have added this to the plugin itself.

Thanks, this works great….

To make this AJAX like, I had to do a little extra work. For instance, the country Germany requires the form helper to say GERMAN, United States to say US, etc. It would be nice if the constant was a capital version of the country and if there was no country, it would show a text field for entry.

0.5,
:update=>"state_select",
:url=> {:action=>'state_select', nly_path=>false},
:with=>"'country=' + encodeURIComponent(value)" %>

would link to a partial

instead of…

BRAZIL_STATES=["Acre"
"Alagoas"
"Amapá"
"Amazonas"
"Bahia"
"Ceará"
"Distrito Federal"
"Goiás"
"Espírito Santo"
"Maranhão"
"Mato Grosso"
"Mato Grosso do Sul"
"Minas Gerais"
"Pará"
"Paraiba"
"Paraná"
"Pernambuco"
"Piauí"
"Rio de Janeiro"
"Rio Grande do Norte"
"Rio Grande do Sul"
"Rondônia"
"Rorâima"
"São Paulo"
"Santa Catarina"
"Sergipe"
"Tocantins"] unless const_defined?(”BRAZIL_STATES”)

Thanks Kaith,it works great but I faced
one problem with it ,options={} and html_options ={} is does not work.How can I put class or id for it.

This is a great timesaver. But is there a way for it to take the value from the object/method passed to it? i.e. if i am updating a record, i would like it to start at the existing value, rather than the first item in the list. (this is how country_select works.)

I put together a list of just the postal codes – no state names – for the US. List was compiled from the USPS official postal codes list of the US and major outlying areas.

US_POSTAL_CODES_STATES = ['AK','AL','AR','AS','AZ','CA','CO','CT','DC','DE','FL','FM','GA','GU','HI','IA','ID','IL','IN','KS','KY','LA','MA','MD','ME','MH','MI','MN','MO','MP','MS','MT','NC','ND','NE','NH','NJ','NM','NV','NY','OH','OK','OR','PA','PR','PW','RI','SC','SD','TN','TX','UT','VA','VI','VT','WA','WI','WV','WY']
unless const_defined?(“US_POSTAL_CODES_STATES”)

Hi, I am getting this error:

ActionView::TemplateError (uninitialized constant ActionView::Base::CompiledTemplates::US) on line

But this works:

Canada does NOT have “District of Columbia and NEEDS “Yukon”

Might I suggest changing your current US_STATES to US_UNABBREV_STATES and adding the following:

US_STATES=[
[ "Alabama", "AL" ],
[ "Alaska", "AK" ],
[ "Arizona", "AZ" ],
[ "Arkansas", "AR" ],
[ "California", "CA" ],
[ "Colorado", "CO" ],
[ "Connecticut", "CT" ],
[ "Delaware", "DE" ],
[ "District Of Columbia", "DC" ],
[ "Florida", "FL" ],
[ "Georgia", "GA" ],
[ "Hawaii", "HI" ],
[ "Idaho", "ID" ],
[ "Illinois", "IL" ],
[ "Indiana", "IN" ],
[ "Iowa", "IA" ],
[ "Kansas", "KS" ],
[ "Kentucky", "KY" ],
[ "Louisiana", "LA" ],
[ "Maine", "ME" ],
[ "Maryland", "MD" ],
[ "Massachusetts", "MA" ],
[ "Michigan", "MI" ],
[ "Minnesota", "MN" ],
[ "Mississippi", "MS" ],
[ "Missouri", "MO" ],
[ "Montana", "MT" ],
[ "Nebraska", "NE" ],
[ "Nevada", "NV" ],
[ "New Hampshire", "NH" ],
[ "New Jersey", "NJ" ],
[ "New Mexico", "NM" ],
[ "New York", "NY" ],
[ "North Carolina", "NC" ],
[ "North Dakota", "ND" ],
[ "Ohio", "OH" ],
[ "Oklahoma", "OK" ],
[ "Oregon", "OR" ],
[ "Pennsylvania", "PA" ],
[ "Rhode Island", "RI" ],
[ "South Carolina", "SC" ],
[ "South Dakota", "SD" ],
[ "Tennessee", "TN" ],
[ "Texas", "TX" ],
[ "Utah", "UT" ],
[ "Vermont", "VT" ],
[ "Virginia", "VA" ],
[ "Washington", "WA" ],
[ "West Virginia", "WV" ],
[ "Wisconsin", "WI" ],
[ "Wyoming", "WY" ] ] unless const_defined?(“US_STATES”)

Hi Maged Makled,

Try this:
< %= state_select 'user', 'state', 'US', :selected=>‘New York’ %>

thanks

MEXICO_STATES = ["Aguascalientes", "Baja California", "Baja California Sur", "Campeche", "Chiapas", "Chihuahua", "Coahuila", "Colima", "Distrito Federal", "Durango", "Guanajuato", "Guerrero", "Hidalgo", "Jalisco", "Michoacán", "Morelos", "México", "Nayarit", "Nuevo León", "Oaxaca", "Puebla", "Querétaro", "Quintana Roo", "San Luis Potosí", "Sinaloa", "Sonora", "Tabasco", "Tamaulipas", "Tlaxcala", "Veracruz", "Yucatán", "Zacatecas"]

Thanks Akhil,

This plugin really saved lot of my time.

Atul.

Hi guys. I’m relatively new to Rails, but am loving it so far. I’m having trouble getting this thing to work. I have it set up and the drop down menu is in place, but I keep getting the message: “State can’t be blank.”

I’m using it in a form like so:

In addition to the validates_presence_of list, I also added this to the module file where it is used:
def state
state = read_attribute(:state)
end

And this in the controller file:
@user.state = params[:user][:state]

I’m sure I’m just missing something out of ignorance, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks!