On Feb 7, 8:17 am, Mohnish G j <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fred, > > I am really sorry for replying late.. > > In the parameters wrt the development.log for books doesn't consider > publishing_date to be as part of books. > > Have a look at this: > > Processing BooksController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-02-07 13:39:33) > [POST] > Session ID: > BAh7BzoMY3NyZl9pZCIlZWI5YTUwYzBjY2E1NDdhNGI3OTc2M2YyNWFkZDkw%0AMGIiCmZsYXNo > SUM6J0FjdGlvbkNvbnRyb2xsZXI6OkZsYXNoOjpGbGFzaEhh%0Ac2h7AAY6CkB1c2VkewA%3D-- > 0abacbbecbc5fbb17e945b639dcbbe7f7520532a > Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", > "authenticity_token"=>"8265666eb9501a997981c9c35c6ebc296b0d21b7", > "action"=>"create", "publishing_date"=>"February 12, 2011", > "controller"=>"books", "book"=>{"title"=>"abcd8", "author"=>"defg8"}} > Book Columns (0.001384) SHOW FIELDS FROM `books` > SQL (0.000088) BEGIN > Book Create (0.000392) INSERT INTO `books` (`created_at`, `author`, > `title`, `updated_at`, `publishing_date`) VALUES('2011-02-07 13:39:33', > 'defg8', 'abcd8', '2011-02-07 13:39:33', NULL) > SQL (0.001896) COMMIT > Redirected tohttp://localhost:3000/books/1054583410 > Completed in 0.01805 (55 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00376 (20%) | 302 Found > [http://localhost/books] > > I had a question, is it because that the calendar_date_select plugin > takes the date in the format "Month dd, year" and not as of the standard > attributes like created_at which take "year-month-date", there is a null > being inserted for publishing_date while creating a new books record? > It's because the publishing_date parameter is being sent at the top level (ie params[:publishing_date], much as if you'd written text_field_tag 'publishing_date'. Either change the name to 'book[publishing_date]' or I seem to recall there is another form of the helper (analogous to text_field) that does that for you
Fred > Thanks > > Mohnish > > -- > Posted viahttp://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.

