I would use Date, Datetime or Timestamp data types, depend on the problem you need to model, in order to model dates (and/or dates and times). If you are already using jQuery you could use the jQuery UI datepicker ( http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/). You can configure the layout and many other options.
Hope it helps. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Rodrigo Ruiz <[email protected]>wrote: > Also what about the date and datetime types? How do I use them and is it > better to use one of those instead of a string? > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:27 PM, leoncio caminha < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> yep, no problem for that >> >> 2011/7/1 Rodrigo Ruiz <[email protected]> >> >>> Thank you, I didn't quite understand cause I haven't study javascript >>> yet, but I think I got the idea. >>> >>> Just one more thing, can I save all that just as strings in the database? >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, leoncio caminha < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dude, one lil example: >>>> >>>> put this in your public/javascript >>>> >>>> function maskTelefone(source, event) { >>>> return mask(source, event, '99 9999-9999', '0123456789'); >>>> } >>>> >>>> then, in your view, call like this >>>> >>>> <%= f.text_field :del_fone, :size => 13, :maxlength => 12, :onkeypress >>>> => "return maskTelefone(this,event);" %> >>>> >>>> works fine fella! >>>> >>>> any doubt, please, talk >>>> >>>> >>>> 2011/7/1 Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> That's done with JavaScript. Have a google for the term 'input mask', >>>>> and step well back when you see the zillions of results. >>>>> >>>>> Walter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 1, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Rodrigo Ruiz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> How can I manage to make it appear automatically, the + and () and - >>>>>> in the telephone +00(00)0000-0000 and the / in the date like mm/dd/yyyy, >>>>>> as >>>>>> the user types only numbers? And how to enable only numbers to be typed? >>>>>> >>>>>> And what type are those kind of information saved in the database? >>>>>> strings? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 1, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Rodrigo Ruiz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Can't I do that only with ruby and rails? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Leoncio Caminha < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> make on javascript for that and call in :onkeypress => 'yourJS(this);' >>>>>> i think so >>>>>> Em 30/06/2011, às 22:23, Rodrigo Ruiz escreveu: >>>>>> >>>>>> You could certainly clean up any user input in a before_validation >>>>>> filter method. I don't know how you would figure out which mask to use, >>>>>> but >>>>>> what I usually do is first strip out anything that isn't a numeral, and >>>>>> then >>>>>> take the numbers back through a mask so that first n numbers are area >>>>>> code, >>>>>> next are exchange, then station, then extension if anything is left >>>>>> over. If >>>>>> you had multiple nations or any optional elements (country code) then the >>>>>> problem gets a lot harder to solve. >>>>>> >>>>>> By the way, as Leoncio pointed out, this could all be done in >>>>>> JavaScript, and the implementation is largely the same; string operations >>>>>> being more or less identical (and with Prototype.js, even having the same >>>>>> names for the functions) in either JavaScript or Ruby. >>>>>> >>>>>> Walter >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > Well, that's basically it, how can I make an input field for date >>>>>> like mm/dd/yyyy and for telephone like +xx (xx) xxxx-xxxx. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Thank you, >>>>>> > Rodrigo >>>>>> > >>>>>> > -- >>>>>> > 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups. >>>>>> **com <[email protected]>. >>>>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> 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