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

Thanks to Dylan for pointing it out, but in case anyone is looking for the cucumber version, you can use this:

select_date("Date of birth", :with => "1/1/2011")

For more information, see select_date.