Oh, I get your problem. You want Date.new to change 29 to 28 if it was given february, but outside of a leap year. I don't think this is the right forum for this discussion. Date is actually part of the Ruby library. Try one of the lists at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Ryan Angilly <[email protected]> wrote: > In this case it's a model with month and day attributes. > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Jordi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Where does 'rhs' come from? >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ryan Angilly <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> Every time I build a calendar system or anything with an annually >>> recurring set of dates, I find myself doing this all the time to avoid >>> getting invalid date exceptions: >>> >>> year = Date.today.year >>> >>> if (year % 4 != 0) && rhs.month == 2 && rhs.day == 29 >>> rday = 28 >>> else >>> rday = rhs.day >>> end >>> >>> date = Date.new(year, rhs.month, rday) >>> >>> Would anybody be interested in a patch so we could just do: >>> >>> Date.new(year, rhs.month, rhs.day, :fix_leap_year => true) >>> >>> Maybe even make :fix_leap_year => true the default behavior? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ryan >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" 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/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
