Country-Select

Compatible with Rails 5.2

Provides a simple helper to get a HTML select list of countries. The list is based on official state names used by NWG.

Users are strongly advised to evaluate the suitability of this list given their user base.

Release Process

This Gem is owned and managed by the Core Services team. Released to GitHub Packages.

Packaging is handled by Jenkins, to push a new release:

• Create a PR that increases the version in country-select.gemspec.
• Get that reviewed and approved.
• Merge the PR. On a successful build, GitHub Actions will package the gem and release it to GitHub Packages.
• Update the bundles for any applications using this gem.

See Internal Gems for more detail.

Installation

Install as a gem using

gem install country-select

Or put the following in your Gemfile

gem 'country-select'

Example

Simple use supplying model and attribute as parameters:

country_select("user", "country_name")

Supplying priority countries to be placed at the top of the list:

country_select("user", "country_name", [ "United Kingdom", "France", "Germany" ])

Supplying additiontal options:

country_select("user", "country_name", [ "United Kingdom", "France", "Germany" ], {:prompt => "Choose Country"}, {:class => "country-chooser"})

Using together with form_for or fields_for:

<%= form_for @user do |f| %>
  <%= f.country_select("country_name") %>
<% end %>

Copyright (c) 2008 Michael Koziarski, released under the MIT license