Provides a simple helper to get an HTML select list of countries. The list of countries comes from the ISO 3166 standard. While it is a relatively neutral source of country names, it may still offend some users.

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

1.1.1

• Fixed incompatibility with Rails 3.2.2 (thanks to jmazzi)

1.1.0

• Updated the country list to change the name of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to Libya according to the latest ISO 3166 newsletter
• A country in the priority list will be selected there and not in the main list (thanks to yyyc514)
• Removed relics from the pre-gem days

Install as a gem using

gem install country-select

Or put the following in your Gemfile

gem 'country-select'

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" ])

• 1.0.5 - runtime error raised if any of the user-supplied priority countries do not correlate with those in the main country list.
• 1.0.4 - updated the country list to match the latest ISO 3166 specification
• 1.0.3 - changed gem name from 'iso-3166-country-select' to just 'country-select'
• 1.0.2 - forked the plugin and made it into a gem

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