On 11 Dec 2008, at 12:55, Martijn Vos wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
>> On 11 Dec 2008, at 11:37, Martijn Vos wrote:
>>> On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Sijo Kg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is an option prompt like
>>>> <%= select("model", "status_id", Status.find(:all).collect {|p| [
>>>> p.name, p.id ] },options ={:prompt => "<< Select any >>"}) %>
>>>>
>>>> I think you can do similarly
>>>
>>> Doesn't seem to work in date_select. And throwing away the
>>> power of date_select in order to handle everything myself seems
>>> like a bad idea. I'd rather add this functionality to date_select.
>>>
>> If you're worrying about good UI, date_select is pretty horrible
>> anyway. Would be something of a lipstick on a pig thing.
>
> Until I needed to add a nil option, date_select worked fine for
> me. What's so wrong with it (other than this particular issue)?
> And is there a better alternative availlable?
People have a hard time working with stuff like '20th december'. Is
that a saturday or a sunday etc... Or they're thinking in terms of
'next monday' and things like that, in which case it's a lot simpler
if they don't have to do the date maths themselves.
Fred
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Martijn.
>
> >
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