Rails - return an array of months for a select tag

Question

I\'m in an app that is on Rails 2.3.8, and need to return an array of month names and numbers to be plugged into an options_for_select statement. What I\'ve got so far is kind

Answer 1

Here's a sexy way to get the months only if that's all you want:

Date::MONTHNAMES.slice(1..-1).map(&:to_sym)