This is ActiveModel. Same behaviour happens with ActiveRecord virtual 
attributes and date fields.  

Because there is no database backing the field, rails has no idea this is a 
date field and therefore does not invoke the attribute combiners it would 
normally, as per 
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb#L62-66




On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 12:13 PM, Mark Ratjens wrote:

> Refer to 
> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html#using-date-and-time-form-helpers
>  Section 4.2
>  
> This is Rails. You should expect that it helps you with banal stuff like 
> this, And it does!
>  
> On 8 November 2012 11:51, Steven Ringo <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > Rails still sends them through as separate fields, in this case for month 
> > and year, and they need to be recombined manually.
> >  
> >  
> > On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 10:29 AM, Mark Ratjens wrote:
> >  
> > > Another way to do this is store a date as one field on the model. It's 
> > > quite easy to add methods to the model to present month and year values 
> > > so that you effectively have the same model interface that you need. I'd 
> > > be tempted to do this, since it relies less on less familiar AR features.
> > >  
> > > In the form, you do can something like  
> > >  
> > > f.date_select :credit_card_date, "written_on", :discard_day => true  
> > > so that the day component of the day is neither shown on the form nor 
> > > sent through the params.
> > >  
> > >  
> > > On 8 November 2012 09:50, Ivan Vanderbyl <[email protected] 
> > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > Ah yes, I went through this same problem a few weeks ago with a CC 
> > > > form. Ended up doing the same thing.
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > On 08/11/2012, at 9:46 AM, Steven Ringo <[email protected] 
> > > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,  
> > > > >  
> > > > > @Ivan, thanks :-)
> > > > >  
> > > > > Since this is a credit card field, we are going to just have separate 
> > > > > explicit fields for month and year, as that's what the acquirer wants 
> > > > > anyway.  
> > > > >  
> > > > > I was worried about how to handle validations on the combined date, 
> > > > > but we don't need to validate at that level. Rather we validate for 
> > > > > all the credit card fields together.
> > > > >  
> > > > > Perhaps it might be a good idea to see multi-parameter attributes 
> > > > > factored out of AR and into ActiveModel?
> > > > >  
> > > > > Thanks again.
> > > > >  
> > > > > Steve
> > > > >  
> > > > >  
> > > > > On Thursday, 8 November 2012 at 9:39 AM, Ivan Vanderbyl wrote:
> > > > >  
> > > > > > Hi Steve,
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > This is handled by ActiveRecord usually in 
> > > > > > ActiveRecord::AttributeAssignment#assign_multiparameter_attributes 
> > > > > > (https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb#L62-66)
> > > > > >   
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > You could experiment with either mixing in that module or pulling 
> > > > > > out the #assign_multiparameter_attributes methods into your own 
> > > > > > module and using it with ActiveModel.
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > AFAIK there is no equivalent for ActiveModel.  
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > — Ivan
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > On 08/11/2012, at 8:55 AM, Steven Ringo <[email protected] 
> > > > > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > Anyone have any idea on the best way to parse a date from a rails 
> > > > > > > form and coerce it into a date field in an active model object.
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > Rails send this in the params hash:
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > "credit_card_expiry(3i)"=>"1", "credit_card_expiry(2i)"=>"11", 
> > > > > > > "credit_card_expiry(1i)"=>"2012"
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > However the model sees these as being three separate attributes, 
> > > > > > > and of course the the active model object has no way of knowing 
> > > > > > > this.  
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > I have seen techniques that manually mangle the hash like so (or 
> > > > > > > introspective variants), but this feels very hacky.
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > params[:subscription][:credit_card_expiry] = 
> > > > > > > Date.new(params[:subscription][:"credit_card_expiry(1i)"].to_i, 
> > > > > > > params[:subscription][:"credit_card_expiry(2i)"].to_i, 
> > > > > > > params[:subscription][:"credit_card_expiry(3i)"].to_i) 
> > > > > > > params[:subscription].delete(:"credit_card_expiry(1i)") 
> > > > > > > params[:subscription].delete(:"credit_card_expiry(2i)") 
> > > > > > > params[:subscription].delete(:"credit_card_expiry(3i)")
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Steve
> > > > > > >  
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