Using calendar helper to jump to other months

Hello,

I have the following in my controller to display a calendar using
calendar helper:

if not request.post?
  @year = Time.now.year
  @month = Time.now.month
else
  @year = Date.new(params[:date][:year], Time.now.month.to_s,

Time.now.mday.to_s).year # this is line 154
@month = Date.new(Time.now.year.to_s,params[:date][:month],
Time.now.mday.to_s).month
end

This is what I have in the corresponding view:

Ship Calendar

<%= start_form_tag %>
<%= select_month(Date.today)%>
<%= select_year(Date.today)%>
<%= submit_tag ‘Go’ %>
<%= end_form_tag %>

<%=
calendar({:year => @year, :month => @month}) do |d|
cell_text = “#{d.mday}

cell_attrs = {:class => ‘day’}

@sales_orders.each do |o|
if o.ship_date.month == d.month
if o.ship_date.mday == d.mday

      cell_text << link_to( o.id.to_s, :controller =>

‘sales_orders’, :action => ‘show’, :id => o ) << “

cell_attrs[:class] = ‘specialDay’
end
end
end
[cell_text, cell_attrs]
end
%>

I can view the calendar initially, since it defaults to the current
month. But when I change the select box’s month and submit it, I get
the following error:

comparison of String with 0 failed
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/histories_controller.rb:154:in
`history_calendar’

What am I doing wrong? I’m just trying to be able to switch to
different months for the calendar.

Thanks,

Jason