Question

I am using the Rails date_select helper.

:start_year => Time.now.year

:end_year => 1910

I would like the year the user sees when they click to be 1980 which is not the start year or end year.

Is there a way to do this with jquery?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can pass the Date object to the :default option.
In your case it’s date_select(:start_year => Time.now.year, :end_year => 1910, :default => Date.new(1980) )

Docs for the date_select helper