The Select component introduces:

• <%= code("app/helpers/components/select_helper.rb") %>
• <%= code("app/components/shadcn/select_component.rb") %>

The select component is implemented as a component object defined in <%= code("app/components/shadcn/select_component.rb") %>. This ruby class is initialized from the helper defined in <%= code("app/helpers/components/select_helper.rb") %>, <%= code "render_select" %>.

The <%= code("render_select") %> method accepts a <%= code("name") %> keyword argument for the name of the form field. An optional argument of <%= code "selected" %> can contain the value of the option to be selected by default.

<%= code("render_select") %> yields an instance of the <%= code "Shadcn::SelectComponent" %> that can be used to build <%= code "option" %>s for the select. <%= code "option" %> on the component instance accepts a <%= code "label" %> argument for the label text to be displayed for the option whose value will be the <%= code "value" %> on the component instance yields a new option object that accepts a <%= code "label" %> and <%= code "value" %> argument. <%= code "option" %> also accepts a block that can be used to create the label.