# Default Year selection for date\_select?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/default-year-selection-for-date-select/92193>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 16, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/default-year-selection-for-date-select/92193 "2007-04-16T23:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pascal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Pascal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pascal_F)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/default-year-selection-for-date-select/92193/1 "2007-04-16T23:54:50Z")

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Hi,

is it posible to tell rails to select a specific year/month/day when  
using a  
date\_select helper?

as mentioned in at [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6124](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6124) things like  
:select\_year =\> 1960  
wont work.

Where would be a good location to look for such things when the api  
doesnt show it?

Pascal