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The file you need to edit is _form.rhtml partial template and not the
new.rhtml, mainly the options of the datatime_select method

Check
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M000469to
see what options you can use, for example :start_year 1995 ...
etc..

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Thank you and kind regards
Rida Al Barazi
http://www.ridaalbarazi.com



On 8/21/06, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston / manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I'm new to rails and ruby and am working through Agile Web Development
> with Rails Edition 1 and have a question if someone could point me in
> the right direction.
> I have my table which has a datetime field
> I generate a scaffold and in the new.rhtml page I get drop down lists
> enabling me to choose a date.
> If I wished to modify the range of available dates i.e. the years
> where does scaffold look to choose this data ?
> TIA Paul
>
>

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