Rails — Formtastic, how to set text for options in select?

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Published on 2010-06-02T22:28:48Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 22:34 UTC
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f.input :some_model_values, :as => :select

Using Formtastic, I need to set a text for options on my select input, but not populated from :some_model_values.

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