Range of Years in JavaScript for a select box

I'm trying to create a dynamic select box in JavaScript with a range of years starting with 'some' year and ending with the current year. Is there anything like Ruby's range class in JavaScript or do I have to loop trough the years using a for loop?

Here's what I've come up with though I think it's a bit much considering in Ruby I can just use a range.

    this.years = function(startYear){
        startYear = (typeof(startYear) == 'undefined') ? 1980 : startYear
        var currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();
        var years = []
        for(var i=startYear;i<=currentYear;i++){
            years.push(i);
        } 
        return years;
    }