Hi Colin, Sayuj and Michael,
This is a proprietary, in-house app in Rails 3.1rc4 for the U.S market and they
hate date_select ("Date is a little hard to fill out. It is time-consuming to
click on "January" and scroll to "June", etc. Any chance I could type in
6/3/11?").
>If you want to allow the user to enter dates like this you will have
>to parse it yourself to make sure the month and day are as you want
>them. If the site is for an international audience I suggest you use
>separate fields for the three components as otherwise you will have no
>end of trouble as most of the world uses day/month/year. I don't
>understand what you mean by "it happens before the column is available
>in the controller". The field will be passed as a string from the
>form to the controller and should appear in params exactly as entered
>by the user. Note also that, since you have specified a date field in
>the database, what is stored there is not "2011-07-11" or any other
>string, but is the date itself.
Colin, you are right that params[:start_date] is exactly as entered in the
form.
What I ended up doing was handling it in the controller with:
[JobsController]
def create
@job = Job.new(params[:job])
@job.start_date = parse_free_date(params[:job][:start_date])
@job.due_date = parse_free_date(params[:job][:due_date])
and
private
def parse_free_date(date_str)
case date_str
when /\A(\d|\d\d)\/(\d|\d\d)\/(\d\d)\z/ # "6/3/11" or "06/03/11"
parts = date_str.split('/', 3)
"20#{parts[2]}-#{parts[0]}-#{parts[1]}"
when /\A\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\z/ # "2011-07-11"
date_str
when /\A(\d|\d\d)\/(\d|\d\d)\/(\d\d\d\d)\z/ # "6/3/2011" or "06/03/2011"
parts = date_str.split('/', 3)
"#{parts[2]}-#{parts[0]}-#{parts[1]}"
when /\A(\d|\d\d)-(\d|\d\d)-(\d\d\d\d)\z/ # "6-3-2011" or "06-03-2011"
parts = date_str.split('/', 3)
"#{parts[2]}-#{parts[0]}-#{parts[1]}"
end
end
I'll tighten up the regexes later; they are good enough for a prototype.
Thanks for all your help!
**Leigh
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