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

For Rails 4, in case somebody gets to this question without being limited to Rails 3.

  select '2020',  from: 'field_name_{}_1i'
  select 'January',  from: 'field_name_{}_2i'
  select '1', from: 'field_name_{}_3i'

You can of course extract this to a helper and make it dynamic.