Question

I have a select_date that I want to restrict the months that a user can select.

<%= select_date(Time.now, :order => [:month, :day, :year ], :datetime_separator => '-', :time_separator => ':', :discard_seconds => true, :discard_minutes => true, :start_month => Time.now.month, :end_month => Time.now.month +1, :start_year => Time.now.year, :end_year => Time.now.year, :prefix => 'start_date') %>

Yet, there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this. You can’t restrict the number of months a select_date displays. Anyone have a way around this?

Answer 1

There isn’t a way, that I know of, to solve this using Rails.

Instead I used this:

http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/

restrict the date range as such:

<%= f.calendar_date_select :start_date, :embedded => true, :valid_date_check => "( (date.stripTime() < ((new Date()).stripTime()).setMonth(new Date().getMonth() + 1)) && ( date.stripTime().setDate(date.getDate() + 1) > (new Date()).stripTime()) )", :year_range => [Time.now.year, Time.now.year], :time => false %>

This allows me to limit the amount of time that a user can select by any range, but in my case by month.