I've tried that too but stille get an argument error with invalid date, i've log the dates an they look fine (the format's ok) ;/ Really hate this kind of errors
On 7 Kwi, 03:47, AMILIN Aurélien <aurelien.ami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 07/04/2010 12:41, Adam a crit : > > > > > sory for the long absence (holidays) > > > well the params[:to] is a date in this format 27.02.2010, but when i > > try to log params[:to].to_date I get an error > > NoMethodError( undefined method'[]' for nil:NilClass) > > > On 1 Kwi, 07:50, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> On 1 April 2010 15:36, Adam <anlauf.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> HI, > >>> I have a pretty weird problems withdates. > >>> my objective was to parse some text files and put them into a > >>> database. > > >>> the lines of the file are divided with a | and some of the fields are > >>> datesin this format dd.mm.yyyy > >>> now in the parsing a get the system date to skip parsing elements in > >>> the past > >>> @date is the local date created with �...@date = Time.now.to_date > >>> params[:to] is the string from the file with the date in above format > >>> I did this with a simple > > >>> if params && ( params[:to].to_date > @date ) # nie parsujemy starych > >>> cennikow > >>> Price.create_or_update params > >>> end > > >>> on my local enviroment everything works fine but on the remote host i > >>> get an invalid date ArgumentError > > >> Catch the error in your code and log or display the params[:to] that > >> is causing it. Then you will likely see the problem. It is risky to > >> convert strings to date without checking validity and taking > >> appropriate action anyway. > > >> Colin > > >>> ruby version on host > >>> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i386-linux] > >>> local > >>> ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux] > > >>> any ideas? > >>> thanks in advance > > >>> -- > >>> 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-t...@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>> For more options, visit this group > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > Hi, > > Assuming params[:to] is a string like "31.12.2007" > you should try : > > Date.parse(params[:to]) > > -- > Aur lien AMILIN -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
