Rails - Calendar date select in 3 simple steps

1. Install plugin

script/plugin install http://calendardateselect.googlecode.com/svn/tags/calendar_date_select

2. Include JS & CSS to your layout file


    <link href="/stylesheets/calendar_date_select/blue.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    <script src="/javascripts/calendar_date_select/calendar_date_select.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

3. Calendar date select tag

<input type="text" name="user[date_of_birth]" size="30" autocomplete="off" onselect="new CalendarDateSelect( this, {year_range:50} );" onclick="new CalendarDateSelect( this, {year_range:50} );" value="<%= Date.today %>"/>


Restart the server as the plugin has been installed! Calendar date select works!

Notes :
1. If you wish to turn on the time, use this => new CalendarDateSelect( this, {year_range:50, time:true} );

2. Adding (autocomplete="off") turns off the auto complete