On 1 April 2010 15:36, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > I have a pretty weird problems with dates. > my objective was to parse some text files and put them into a > database. > > the lines of the file are divided with a | and some of the fields are > dates in this format dd.mm.yyyy > now in the parsing a get the system date to skip parsing elements in > the past > @date is the local date created with �...@date = Time.now.to_date > params[:to] is the string from the file with the date in above format > I did this with a simple > > if params && ( params[:to].to_date > @date ) # nie parsujemy starych > cennikow > Price.create_or_update params > end > > on my local enviroment everything works fine but on the remote host i > get an invalid date ArgumentError
Catch the error in your code and log or display the params[:to] that is causing it. Then you will likely see the problem. It is risky to convert strings to date without checking validity and taking appropriate action anyway. Colin > > ruby version on host > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i386-linux] > local > ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux] > > any ideas? > thanks in advance > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
