thanks - I'm specifically looking at Dates so I might stick with the
below that seems to be working fine...
errors.add('start_date', 'is not in Date format') if
!start_date.kind_of?(Date)
cheers
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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