On 24 February 2010 10:07, Pale Horse <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederick Cheung wrote: >> >> by the time rails validates the record it has already turned it into a >> date.
> Thanks for your swift response. What exactly does this mean for my > validation, though? validates_presence_of would probably suffice. If the user entered an non-parseable value, the closing_date field will be nil. try it and see :-) -- 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.

