Hi Robert, Thanks for looking carefully at my approach. I value your warning that my names for the date fields I defined may be redundant.
> Notice how your "created" and "modified" attributes are redundant with > "created_at" and "modified_at." Every Csv instance is intended to record attributes of a file discovered in public\data\csv directory. So the "created" field will record the date the file in question was created. The created_at attribute will record the data the instance (and thus the corresponding database record) was created. So I believe they are two different date values. As far as the date format is concerned, I plan to use (for example) File.new(filename).ctime.strftime(pattern) in view. Does that make sense, or do you think I am confused in this perception? Please let me know. Best wishes, Richard On Dec 15, 12:30 pm, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> @csv = Csv.new > > => #<Csv id: nil, filename: nil, created: nil, modified: nil, > > imported: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> > > One other thing that might be noteworthy... > > Notice how your "created" and "modified" attributes are redundant with > "created_at" and "modified_at." You might want to consider using the > ones provided by Rails by default. This way you have no additional work > in updating these standard fields. Rails with take care of them for you. > > Then you also have the "imported" attribute. Since this is also a date > field you might want to follow the Rails convention for naming date and > time fields by appending "_at" or "_on" so you could have "imported_on" > if you want a date only or "imported_at" if you want to also record the > time along with the date. > > Also note that the default attributes added by "t.timestamps" in your > migration will use date and time, but you can always format your view to > show date only if you want. And, of course, you will need to update the > value of "imported_at" yourself since it not something Rails can do > automatically. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
