Form input type="date" in Ruby on Rails

Question

I want to have a date input for a form. I know this only works in some browsers:

<input type="date" name="birth_day"/>

Is there a convenient method for this in Ruby on Rails? The documentation for the various form elements list many other input types, but I don't see anything for dates:

• email_field
• number_field
• phone_field
• range_field
• search_field
• telephone_field
• text_field

I know about date_select, that's not what I want. I want the above HTML output. I'm using Ruby on Rails 3.2.13. Is there possibly a date_field in Ruby on Rails 4? Or another way to do this?

Answer 1

You can see the lastest docs that the date_field helper provide that. That seems a functionality from Rails 4.

Example from docs:

date_field("user", "born_on")
# => <input id="user_born_on" name="user[born_on]" type="date" />

Answer 2

For older versions of Rails I believe you can use:

.text_field(type: 'date')