Question

Hi im using ruby on rails, when i enter the date of birth on the years is just giving me from 2007 to 2012,
i have this command on my db, i bold the one that is giving me the error, the thing is i need to have all the options to select a date of birth and also to select them in the future of course

class CreatePacientes < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :pacientes do |t|
      t.string :cedula
      t.string :nombre
      t.string :apellido1
      t.string :apellido2
      **t.date :fecha_nacimiento**
      t.string :genero
      t.string :estado_civil
      t.string :provincia
      t.string :canton
      t.string :distrito
      t.text :otras_senas
      t.string :telefono_casa
      t.string :telefono_celular
      t.string :correo_electronico
      t.string :nacionalidad
      t.integer :anos_estudio
      t.string :profesion
      t.string :ocupacion

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

Answer 1

If you look at the documentation of the date_select helper, you will see that it accepts these two options:

: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.

What you’re seeing are the default values. Although I’m not sure why your max is 2012, not 2017, because it should be +/- 5 years. Anyway, try to pass the limits to get the range you need. Or don’t use date_select if you need to input any year.