The documentation might be outdated. Here's a ticket I found. It possibly never got updated.
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2517-time_zone_select-documentation-is-outdated On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Anthony Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > I sent this earlier but I don't think it ever came through. Sorry if this > is a reposting. > > When using :priority_zones for time_zone_select in a manner described > by the API docs for ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper I'm getting > errors. > > Here is an API docs example: > time_zone_select( "user", 'time_zone', TimeZone.us_zones, :default => > "Pacific Time (US & Canada)") > > When using this code I get "uninitialized constant > ActionView::CompiledTemplates::TimeZone". > > The first thing I noticed was that TimeZone is camel cased. This seems > confusing to me considering TZInfo::Timezone is proper cased. I tried > using proper cased Timezone and continued to get the same error. Next, > I tried using TZInfo::Timezone, this worked. > > time_zone_select( "user", 'time_zone', > TZInfo::Timezone.us_zones, :default => "Pacific Time (US & Canada)") > > It seems that I'm either doing it wrong, there is a different way to > do it in Rails 3.0, the documentation is wrong, or there is a bug > (understandable since I'm using Rails 3.0 beta). > > Can anybody shed light on this? > > Documentation: > http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelp...<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html%23M001626&usg=AFQjCNFi_qvq-Tyc48ej5kWzDa1Yr80dKw> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
