2009/10/20 Francesco Belladonna <[email protected]>: > > 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)
Just to check that you have also seen the rails guides at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ The Getting Started, ActiveRecord Associations, Debugging, and Testing guides are compulsory reading (and re-reading and experimenting till it makes sense). Colin Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
