Rails select tag not working when value different from display or when value in database is integer?

Question

In my rails form I'm using the select tag.

<%= f.select :featured,
         Timeline::TIMELINE_FEATURED,
         :prompt => "Select" %>

The definition of TIMELINE_FEATURES is Yes and No to be displayed, but stored as INT in database:

TIMELINE_FEATURED = [
 # Displayed   stored in db
 ["No",     "0"],
 ["Yes",    "1"]
]

My problem is that when I go to the edit page the dropdown value is NOT selected correctly.

For example, if I had set the dropdown to Yes, and store the value of 1 in the database if I come back to this dropdown Yes is NOT selected like it should be. Is it because the value is stored as an Integer in DB but it's a string in the option tag? How do I solve?

I have other selects in the same form that are working correctly but the value stored in the DB is a string.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

<%= f.select :featured, options_for_select(Timeline::TIMELINE_FEATURED, @zero_or_one), :prompt => "Select" %>