Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > Hi all, > I am creating a bash.org-like. Basically: just store and retrieve quotes > that people enter. I would like the user to have the option of entering > a few fields, among which are a date a and location field. > What do you think is the best default to use for these fields? nil, or > today's date (or January 1st, year 1), or an empty string?
Depends on your use case. If you think that most of the time, the user will want to date things today, then use that as a default. 1/1/1 is probably not a sensible default in most cases, and an empty string certainly wouldn't be sensible for a date field (which shouldn't contain a string). In most cases, then, for date, I'd probably use either nil or a reasonable date (such as today). For location...can you use Google's currentLocation or some such to get the client's location if possible? That would be a great default for many applications. If not, nil is good here too. > It may be possible later to search or sort using these fields, which is > why I am asking how you would do this. I may have not searched well, but > I didn't find anything on the web about this. > > Thanks :) Note that this is really a general UI and database design question. You will probably come up with the best solutions if you think in those directions. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- 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.
