Create a Year Dropdown Box FormBuilder In Ruby On Rails

Question

I am trying to create a db that has a year attribute but I am having some difficulty. I created the scaffold and tryied to modify the _form.html.erb with this code:

<%= f.date_select :year, :start_year=>2000, :end_year=>Time.now.year %>

Tried to run the rails server and gave me this error:

1 error(s) on assignment of multiparameter attributes

I realized that I only wanted the year and not the day or month. Is there a way to do that? I tried :discard_month=>true but that just hides it, but still storing it.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Do something like:

<%= f.date_select :year, :order => [:year], :start_year => 2000, :end_year => Time.now.year, :prompt => {:year => "Select year"} %>

Because your year field is an int and not a datetime :

<%= f.select :year, (2000..Time.now.year).to_a, :include_blank => {:year => "Select year"} %>

Answer 2

Another alternative is select_year

eg,

select_year(Date.current, start_year: 2015, end_year: Date.current.year)