form date helper with text year

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I have a date where the year range is more then I want to define in a select_date scaffold generated year range.

My idea was to have the year entered as a text field and the month and day using something like:

  <%= select_month @person.born,:prefix => :person ,:field_name => "born(2i)" %>   <%= select_day @person.born,:prefix => :person , :field_name => "born(3i)" %>

  <%= f.text_field ??? or text_field_tag ??? field_name => "born(1i)" %>

I just can't seem to find the set of options to build the year tag. Guess I also would have to extract the year out of the date for the value.

Can't seem to find any examples and looking for help.

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I'll answer my own question:

        <%= select_month @person.born,:prefix => :person ,:field_name => "born(2i)" %>         <%= select_day @person.born,:prefix => :person , :field_name => "born(3i)" %>         <%= text_field_tag "person[born(1i)]", value = @person.born.year,:size => 4 %>