Date picker: default year selected

Question

In form 1, I have a formtasticdate_select field .

= f.input :date_from, :discard_day   => true, 
                      :discard_month => true,
                      :order         => [:year], 
                      :start_year    => 1950, 
                      :end_year      => Date.today.year, 
                      :include_blank => false

When the form is displayed, the yeardefault value of 1950 is used in the drop-down list .

In form 2, I have another formtasticdate_select field .

= f.input :date_from, :discard_day   => true, 
                      :order         => [:month, :year], 
                      :start_year    => 1950, 
                      :end_year      => Date.today.year, 
                      :include_blank => false

When the form is displayed, the yeardefault value of 2000 is used in the drop-down list .

How do you explain this behavior? Ideally, I want the default year field to be 10 years ago.

PS: Setting a default does not matter.

:default       => Date.today

Answer 1

You tried:

:selected => Date.today.year - 10

RDoc formtastic, : http://rdoc.info/github/justinfrench/formtastic/master/Formtastic/SemanticFormBuilder:date_input