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Why select_date and select_date? I dont understand why having both (backward compat?). I also look that their source are different, one use the InstanceTag and others calls 3 select_(year, month, day) functions.

As far as I can tell, it''s not possible to use html_options in conjunction with the select_* helpers. This means using them in conjunction with observe_field etc is pretty much impossible. Does anyone have a patch to add this functionality, or know of a workaround? I''m having a look at the moment, but not sure how to get it working without breaking existing stuff. -- R.Liv...

...wn is "- Month -", "- Day -", or "- Year -" rather than a blank value for the respective month, day, and year select fields. I took a look at the ruby source for form_options_helper.rb in gems/actionpack-1.8.1/lib/action_view/helpers on my machine, specifically the to_select_tag function and see that it could be reasonably easy to override this method to do what I''d like (I''d need to set an option at the date_select level for a label to use as well), but I have no idea where in my Rails project (directory, file, class, etc.) that I should put my chang...