# Why am I onlu limited by the years from 2005-2015? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 22, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569 "2010-06-22T23:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/1 "2010-06-22T23:36:14Z")
I have created a scaffold, part of which was dob:date When I view my web page under DOB, I have only the years listed from 2005-2015. What should I do to enter older years? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/2 "2010-06-22T23:47:29Z")
> I have created a scaffold, part of which was dob:date > > When I view my web page under DOB, I have only the years listed from > 2005-2015. What should I do to enter older years? See the docs for date\_select (even if it’s a datetime\_select the same options work). Specifically: :start\_year - Set the start year for the year select. Default is Time.now.year - 5. :end\_year - Set the end year for the year select. Default is Time.now.year + 5. ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/3 "2010-06-22T23:56:40Z")
Philip H. wrote: > > I have created a scaffold, part of which was dob:date > > > > When I view my web page under DOB, I have only the years listed from > > 2005-2015. What should I do to enter older years? > > See the docs for date\_select (even if it’s a datetime\_select the same > options work). Specifically: > > :start\_year - Set the start year for the year select. Default is > Time.now.year - 5. > :end\_year - Set the end year for the year select. Default is > Time.now.year + 5. Thanks Philip. I’m actually new to RoR. Where can I make this change? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/4 "2010-06-23T00:10:18Z")
Philip H. wrote: > On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Abder-rahman Ali wrote: > > > > Time.now.year - 5. > > > :end\_year - Set the end year for the year select. Default is > > > Time.now.year + 5. > > > > Thanks Philip. > > > > I’m actually new to RoR. Where can I make this change? > > In the view file. Find the file that has the form and then look for > date\_select and add the options… If you mean the “views” folder, there is nothing actually on it. Just \*.html.erb ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/5 "2010-06-23T00:00:57Z")
On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Abder-rahman Ali wrote: > > Time.now.year - 5. > > :end\_year - Set the end year for the year select. Default is > > Time.now.year + 5. > > Thanks Philip. > > I’m actually new to RoR. Where can I make this change? In the view file. Find the file that has the form and then look for date\_select and add the options… ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/6 "2010-06-23T00:26:43Z")
On Jun 22, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Abder-rahman Ali wrote: > > In the view file. Find the file that has the form and then look for > > date\_select and add the options… > > If you mean the “views” folder, there is nothing actually on it. Just > \*.html.erb Right. And one of those .html.erb files will have the field you want… ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/7 "2010-06-23T02:50:18Z")
Philip H. wrote: > On Jun 22, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Abder-rahman Ali wrote: > > > > In the view file. Find the file that has the form and then look for > > > date\_select and add the options… > > > > If you mean the “views” folder, there is nothing actually on it. Just > > \*.html.erb > > Right. And one of those .html.erb files will have the field you want… I found the date\_select, but got the following error. Any ideas? compile error /Users/abder/Desktop/RoR projects/student\_info/app/views/students/new.html.erb:16: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’, expecting ‘)’ …year=\>1950, :end\_year=\>2010) :dob ).to\_s); @output\_buffer.co… Extracted source (around line #16): 13: 14: 15: \<%= f.label :dob %\> 16: \<%= f.date\_select(:start\_year=\>1950, :end\_year=\>2010) :dob %\> 17: 18: 19: \<%= f.label :major %\> Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/8 "2010-06-23T11:23:49Z")
botp wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Abder-rahman Ali [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > 16: � � \<%= f.date\_select(:start\_year=\>1950, :end\_year=\>2010) :dob %\> > > you’ll need the object and method, > > [ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M002264) > > kind regards -botp Thanks a lot botp. Yes, I wasn’t aware of the correct syntax. ---
**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-am-i-onlu-limited-by-the-years-from-2005-2015/190569/9 "2010-06-23T04:56:33Z")
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Abder-rahman Ali [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 16: \<%= f.date\_select(:start\_year=\>1950, :end\_year=\>2010) :dob %\> you’ll need the object and method, > **[ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M002264)** > > Action View Date Helpers The Date Helper primarily creates select/option tags for different kinds of dates and times or date and time elements. kind regards -botp