Rails - Dec 2007 - Overriding or changing HTML generated by date_select?

Hi,

I''m looking for a way to customize the HTML forms generated by
date_select. I''m especially keen on replacing the year and possibly
day input by a simple text field, since honestly, I find listboxes for
years to be quite retarded (if I wanted client-side validation, there
would be better ways to do that instead of having people try and find
their year of birth in a list of approximately a hundred entries). Is
there a way to do that without manually hardcoding form fields in the
view?
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On Dec 26, 2007 3:41 PM, ngollan-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org
<ngollan-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m looking for a way to customize the HTML forms generated by
> date_select.
You can hack ActiveView::Helpers::DateHelper if you''d like, or wrap
date_select in a helper of your own and manipulate the output there,
but I suspect you''ll do just as well without it.

Take a look at this railscast:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/32

I think Ryan Bates shows how to do almost exactly what you want.

- Martin

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On Dec 26, 7:26 pm, "Martin Svalin"
<martin.sva...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2007 3:41 PM, ngol...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org
<ngol...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I''m looking for a way to customize the HTML forms generated
by
> > date_select.
...
>
> Take a look at this railscast:http://railscasts.com/episodes/32
Thanks a lot, that looks like a good point to start from. They need to
make those casts more search-friendly in some way, all that web
searches turned up were JScript calendars.
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