Rails formtastic is asking for a country plug-in.. I don't want it. Anyone know how to tell it I don't want it?

Question

I'm using formtastic and I've got a field country.. I'm getting this error when I attempt to display the screen.

To use the :country input, please install a country_select plugin, like this one: https://github.com/jamesds/country-select

Now. I don't want to use any plugin.. It's free text, and I want to keep it that way.

Anyone know how to remove this requirement? Should be easy as... but I'm buggered if I can see how.

= semantic_form_for @store, {:html => { :class => "form-horizontal" }} do |f|
  = f.input :default_country

Answer 1

Add , :as => :string

to the end of the line that's causing the error

= semantic_form_for @store, {:html => { :class => "form-horizontal" }} do |f|
  = f.input :default_country, :as => :string

Answer 2

In Rails 4, formtastic with country select input field:

Add 'country-select' to your Gemfile:

gem 'country-select'

If I use semantic form select, it doesn't shows previously saved value. So, the following is not working properly:

=f.input :country, as: :select, collection: country_options_for_select

So have to use standard form elements to get working:

=f.select :country, collection: country_options_for_select

Answer 3

I found that this plugin works out of the box (note the underscore instead of the dash):

https://github.com/chrislerum/country_select