Thanks for the advice - much appreciated. Looking through the options, I'll probably go for the simple approach suggested by Kenny initially - override with helper. There's a fair amount of data entry, and cranking in the dates is easier with a plain old text field and some simple validation. 2 birds, 1 stone.
Cheers Doug On Aug 17, 10:05 pm, Kenny Ortmann <[email protected]> wrote: > That would also work. A better approach would be to try and add this in > through the controller. > > config.columns[:maturity_date].options = {:html_options => {:include_blank > => true}} > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Kerry Foley <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > I override the form column in the helper and add ":include_blank => true": > > > def maturity_date_form_column(record, input_name) > > date_select :record, :maturity_date, :include_blank => true, :name > > => input_name > > end > > > Regards, > > Kerry > > > Doug wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a date field in my model that allows nil values. The default > > > edit view shows a date dropdown for day, month and year, defaulting to > > > today's date. Can I tell activescaffold as part of its configuration > > > to allow nil values for this date field, either as a "Nil" checkbox > > > next to the dropdown, or as blank items in the drop downs? > > > > Doug --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ActiveScaffold : Ruby on Rails plugin" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
