From: Paul Johnston <paul.johnston@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T19:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie help with scaffold generator

On 21 Aug 2006 03:03:35 -0700, "Ashutosh" <ashutosh.ambekar@gmail.com>
wrote:

>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

Hugh help,
Many Thanks Paul