I18n Ruby I18n

When migrating a current project from GetText to i18n the following exception was thrown when using the date_select helper:

can't convert Symbol into String

Example:

When in your application you have set the I18n.locale to something different than "en" and you have the following simple code in your view:

<%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate") %>

You'll get the can't convert Symbol into String for the date_select helper. The problem can be rescued by giving the date_select helper order like this:

<%= date_select("user_info", "birthdate", :order => [:day,:month,:year]) %>

or by doing order in the yml file usually located at config/locales/your_lang.yml like this

date:
  formats: 
    default: ""
    long: ""
    short: ""
  order: [ :day, :month, :year ]