Monkey patch for "options_for_select", which forces a title attribute on the option

options_for_select.rb

#
# Monkey patch for "options_for_select", which forces a title attribute on the option which is the same as the text
# value which will be displayed in the select box. 
#
# For what purpose, you ask?  Well, it's like this.  Selects have fixed widths and cannot be made to expand to fill
# available space :-p so you must choose a width when creating it, and hope for the best.  If the data to be 
# displayed in the select is too wide, then you just can't see the whole thing.  With this patch, you will at least 
# have access to the entire string as as hover-text, using the title attribute.
#
# If you don't like this, then just delete this file from the plugin, and you will be back to normal.
#
module ActionView
  module Helpers
    module FormOptionsHelper
      def options_for_select(container, selected = nil)
        container = container.to_a if Hash === container
        options_for_select = container.inject([]) do |options, element|
          text, value = option_text_and_value(element)
          selected_attribute = ' selected="selected"' if option_value_selected?(value, selected)
          title_attribute = ' title="#{text}"'
          options << %(<option value="#{html_escape(value.to_s)}"#{selected_attribute}#{title_attribute}>#{html_escape(text.to_s)}</option>)
        end
        options_for_select.join("\n")        
      end
    end
  end
end