On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 4:26:19 PM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > By accident, I just realized that an ActiveRecord date field can be set > using a third way... > > foo = Fo.new > foo.start_date = Date.new(2016, 1, 31) > foo.start_date = '2016-01-31' >
> and to my surprise... > > foo.start_date = '31/1/2016' > > Where can I find documentation on this? I've searched to the point of > wasting my time. > > In the most general case, active record ends up calling Date._parse ( http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.3.1/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html#method-c-_parse ) from the ruby stdlib which tries to guess/handle all sorts of different formats ( https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/date/date_parse.c ) but without documenting what they are (as far as I can see) Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9758bcec-8001-4cc1-bc05-67d551c58689%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
