On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:51:38 PM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: > > On 17 May 2011 17:11, TomRossi7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to change the default option for the Date.parse > > (which ActiveRecord is using on all date fields). I would like the > > "comp" option to default to true so I don't have to account for 2- > > digit dates throughout my application. > > > > http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/classes/Date.html#M001228 > > Do you mean you are giving ActiveRecord a string and expecting it to > parse it into a Date as it writes it to the database? If so that is > generally very dangerous. It is much better to parse it yourself into > a Date so that you can be sure you are interpreting the input > correctly, and can cope with parse errors. Then pass the Date to > ActiveRecord. Or perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are doing. > ActiveRecord typically does a great job in typecasting, handling exceptions, and validation so I'm not sure what you mean. Though, this is probably a different discussion altogether since my original question was just how to tweak the options for the current parsing that ActiveRecord is already doing.
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