Multiple ids and an unique name

Question

I am very new in Ruby and JavaScript, so I not sure about what I am doing. I have a dropdown box that I would like to show by unique name.

1. I use JavaScript(CoffeeScript) to get the results with JSON
2. I created a method to show by unique name (It is working)

My problem is how can I get both ids? When I select a object the value is the id, and the text method is the name. For example, if I have 3 objects with the same name, I need to get three ids. Now, I am getting just one.

Is there another way to do it? Thanks a lot!

TABLE OBJECTS

ID
NAME (I have duplicates in name)
MODEL

UNIQUE INDEX (NAME, MODEL)

Answer 1

You will want to do your select based on the name of the object. Something like

MyModel.find_by_name(params[:name])

This will require you to send the name of the item to the server instead of the id . You are probably currently doing something like

MyModel.find(params[:id])