From: Ashutosh <ashutosh.ambekar@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T19:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie help with scaffold generator

Paul Johnston wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to rails and ruby and am working through Agile Web Development
> with Rails Edition 1 and have a question if someone could point me in
> the right direction.
> I have my table which has a datetime field
> I generate a scaffold and in the new.rhtml page I get drop down lists
> enabling me to choose a date.
> If I wished to modify the range of available dates i.e. the years
> where does scaffold look to choose this data ?
> TIA Paul

Hi,

I think Rails picks it from
\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.1.6\lib\rails_generator\generators\components\scaffold.

Alternatively, you  may write your own code (and not use scoffold) to
get required range of dates (years etc) using datetime helpers.

As an example, add following code in your rhtml where you need the date
field:

date_select("post", "written_on", :start_year => 1995,
:use_month_numbers => true,
:discard_day => true, :include_blank => true)

Check out details and other date time helpers at
http://railsmanual.com/module/ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper

HTH,
Ashutosh