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

Found this nifty way to shift off the first nil but return a new collection of months. You cannot use shift on it since that would try to modify the frozen variable.

Date::MONTHNAMES.drop(1)