I have a Song class that looks like this: class Song include DataMapper::Resource property :id, Serial property :title, String property :lyrics, Text property :length, Integer property :released_on, Date end
Here's my form for creating it: <form action="/songs" method="POST"> <input id="title" name="song[title]" type="text" /> <input id="length" name="song[length]" type="number" /> <input id="day" max="31" min="1" name="day" type="number" /> <input id="month" max="12" min="1" name="month" type="number" /> <input id="year" max="1998" min="1940" name="year" type="number" /> <textarea id="lyrics" name="song[lyrics]"></textarea> <input type="submit" value="Save Song" /> </form> I want to be able to create a new song resource by using song = Song.create(params[:song]) The problem I'm having is with the released_on property, since it needs to be a Date object. At the moment, I am doing this: date = Date.new(params[:year].to_i,params[:month].to_i,params[:day].to_i) song = Song.create(params[:song].merge(released_on: date)) Does anybody know any nicer ways of entering a date into a form and being able to simply call Song.create(params[:song]) without having to manipulate the form parameters first? cheers, DAZ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datamapper/-/OOhRt2vQKNEJ. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.