title: Rails - Creating a select tag from a object hash
body: <p>I need to create a select box from the values available in a Hash.</p>
  
  <p>For instance, I have a 'thing' and the 'thing' has a variety of status fields:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1 =&gt; 'State A'
  2 =&gt; 'State B'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>available via a method on thing.</p>
  
  <p>How can I build a select tag from this?</p>