@peter make sense!
let me try with overridden birth_date= writer method in rails 3
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Peter Vandenabeele
<pe...@vandenabeele.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1 February 2012 09:24, sandip ransing <san...@funonrails.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > validating date against Date.strptime('DATE STRING') will surely work.
>> > At controller level, i can able to do validation on date but at model
>> level
>> > it goes for toss bcz value gets nil before validation(at assignment
>> level)
>>
>> The best thing is not to let the user enter a simple string for the
>> date, but give him different fields for day, month and year and then
>> combine them into a date. Allowing him to enter it as a string will
>> cause problems as different users will expect different ordering of
>> the date. I generally use date_select for dates as Rails will
>> automatically combine the form fields for you.
>>
>
> I had experience that the typical administrative user, is _very_ fast at
> typing
> dates on her numeric keypad. It is really a lot easier for her to type a
> requested
> delivery_date as 300412 (that is delivery on 30 April 2012) even if we as
> developers frown upon it. Maybe a series of 3 boxes as you suggest
> may also be a good compromise.
>
> The protection against the problem of misinterpretation, is then to show
> the
> fully expanded date (preferably with a local fast javascript), to verify
> that the
> computer interpreted the data correctly. And use localisation, where users
> in
> EU get dd/mm/yyyy as default setting and users in US get mm/dd/yyyy as
> default input setting.
>
> HTH,
>
> Peter
>
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