Greg - you might take a look at time_with_zone.rb in ActiveSupport -
I'm looking at 2.2.0 but I know it's in 2.1.2 as well.
a = Time.now
a.is_a?(Time) => true
a = "My name is Fred"
a.is_a?(Time) => false
Maybe closer to what you need?
Rick
On Nov 22, 1:04 am, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right, but back to your initial question, I don't think my initial
> answer was even close to the mark.
>
> I believe the problem you're having is that the validates_inclusion is
> looking for an enumeration hanging off the :in. i.e. [1,2,3,4,5] or
> 1..5 will work but (My Name Is Frank)..(Your Name Is Louie) somehow
> doesn't look right, does it?
>
> You're doing :in => (Sun, 22 Nov 1908)..(Sun, 22 Nov 2108)
> which just isn't going to happen. Try converting to Julian days, that
> way you'll be bounded with two positive integers.
>
> Rick
>
> On Nov 21, 8:08 pm, "Greg Hauptmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I've actually run with the following:
>
> > def validate
> > errors.add('start_date', 'is not in Date format') if
> > !start_date.kind_of?(Date)
> > errors.add('end_date', 'is not in Date format') if
> > !end_date.kind_of?(Date)
> > end
>
> > Its seems that the Rails controller tries to convert it to Date and
> > either succeeds or fails (without throwing an exception). So I just
> > test to see at the subsequent validate stage whether there is a Date
> > object or not
>
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Greg,
>
> > > validates_inclusion_of is looking for :in to be an enumeration. In a
> > > simple case (one day granularity) you're asking for a list that's
> > > 365.25 * 200 => 73050 items long.
>
> > > My guess is it's a good thing it didn't work ;-)
>
> > > Maybe you want to go for a min/max check here.
>
> > > Rick
>
> > > On Nov 20, 11:22 am, "Greg Hauptmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > >> wondering if should this work? - "validates_inclusion_of :start_date,
> > >> :in => (Time.now.to_date - 100.years)..(Time.now.to_date + 100.years)"
> > >> (doesn't seem to for me)
>
> > >> i.e. should I be able to "validates_inclusion_of" to do date validation.
>
> > >> ................
> > >> class GraphOptions < ActiveRecord::BaseWithoutTable
> > >> column :start_date, :date
> > >> validates_inclusion_of :start_date, :in => (Time.now.to_date -
> > >> 100.years)..(Time.now.to_date + 100.years)
> > >> end
> > >> ................
>
> > >> tks
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