Leonardo Mateo wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Francesco Belladonna > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> -- >> creates html tags formatted in a way, so the day selection tag will have >> "name" attribute "calendar[mydate(3i)]", the month will have >> "calendar[mydate(2i)]" and so on. If I change these tags in my single >> text field tag I will have "calendar[mydate]" and nothing else, but when >> I send this information obviusly ruby should understand how to "split" >> this date to store it: where should I do this (and where could I read my >> submitted vars?)? In controller I only have >> Calendar.new(params[:calendar]) in create method, so I think that params >> should be "changed" in some way, is this the good way? > > Yes, I don't think there's any other way to do that. You should parse > your params[:calendar][:mydateXX] and format them in the way you need. > I would do something like: > day = params[:calendar] .delete("mydate(3i)") > month = params[:calendar] .delete("mydate(3i)") > year = params[:calendar] .delete("mydate(3i)") > #I don't really remember the order they are stored, but you get the idea > Then, do somehting like: > params[:calendar][:name_of_the_date_field_here] = Date.new(year, month, > day) > And then: > Calendar.new(params[:calendar] > > But that's just my first approach to this, maybe you can figure out a > better way to do it. > > Hope it helps. > > > -- > Leonardo Mateo. > There's no place like ~
Thanks your suggestion actually is working for me (and better: I've understood it) theambler wrote: > I found this helpful: > > http://railscasts.com/episodes/73-complex-forms-part-1 > > and the two episodes that follow. These seems even better, but actually I have some difficults in understanding it (I'm at the very beginning, so I'm having troubles in understanding some processes) -- Posted via http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
