With strptime you can specify the format:
Date.strptime("07.04.2010", "%d.%m.%Y")On Apr 7, 2:13 pm, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll jutr try (for now) to make the dates by spliting the string and > extracting every part of it and making a new Date obj. from those > parts > > On 7 Kwi, 04:53, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've tried that too but stille get an argument error with invalid > > date, i've log the dates an they look fine (the format's ok) ;/ > > Really hate this kind of errors > > > On 7 Kwi, 03:47, AMILIN Aurélien <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Le 07/04/2010 12:41, Adam a crit : > > > > > sory for the long absence (holidays) > > > > > well the params[:to] is a date in this format 27.02.2010, but when i > > > > try to log params[:to].to_date I get an error > > > > NoMethodError( undefined method'[]' for nil:NilClass) > > > > > On 1 Kwi, 07:50, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> On 1 April 2010 15:36, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> HI, > > > >>> I have a pretty weird problems withdates. > > > >>> 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 > > > >>> datesin 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 > > > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > > Hi, > > > > Assuming params[:to] is a string like "31.12.2007" > > > you should try : > > > > Date.parse(params[:to]) > > > > -- > > > Aur lien AMILIN -- 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.
