How to select date from a select box using Capybara in Rails 3?

Question

I\'m writing a spec for a controller in Rails 3 project using RSpec and Capybara, and I want to select current date from a select box. I tried:

select Date.t         


        

Answer 1

A slight adaption of Markus's answer:

def select_date(date, options = {})  
  raise ArgumentError, 'from is a required option' if options[:from].blank?
  field = options[:from].to_s
  select date.year.to_s,               :from => "#{field}_1i"
  select Date::MONTHNAMES[date.month], :from => "#{field}_2i"
  select date.day.to_s,                :from => "#{field}_3i"
end