How do I connect jQuery Datepicker to my Ruby on Rails form?

Question

I\'m trying to use the jQuery Datepicker to set a date field in my Ruby on Rails form, but I can\'t work out how to do it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

I used albertopq's jquery_datepicker that albertopq mentions and it works with regular forms, nested attributes, etc. It made things very easy for me. jquery_datepicker also correctly passes options to datepicker's necessary javascript calls.

Here's an example from one of my nested forms:

<%= f.datepicker 'availability', :minDate => 0, :maxDate => "+8Y", :tab_index => autotab %>

minDate and maxDate are passed to datepicker and tab_index is put into the text field html. (autotab is just my form helper to advance the tab + 1...better for me than hardcoding it).