Question: Reading along with the agile book, it says this in a footnote:

> 
> ... You simply pass the select helper the result of doing a ﬁnd(:all) on your lookup 
>  table. 
> 
> 
> 

Okay ...

```
<%= f.select :source, Source.find(:all) %>

```

My source controller (and therefore table) looks like this:

```
create_table :sources do |t|
  t.string :source

  t.timestamps
end

```

But my select box is a mess, I get this type of data in all the values and displays:

```
#<Source:0x23a2bfc>

```

So I tried doing a `Source.find(:all, :select => 'name,id')` but that still gives me the whacky looking stuff.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer: 
I disabled Gallio addin and VS2008 worked.
I was having the same problem with Visual Studio 2008 crashing with no error dialog of any kind when opening many of our WinForms in design mode. Tried the same process in safe mode (devenv.exe /safemode) and it worked. So... I tried disabling my add-ins one by one. The culprit in my case was the VMDebugger add-in installed by VMWare Workstation 6.5.