On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17 May 2011 21:37, TomRossi7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > I am still not sure I understand the question - is the answer to the > above question 'yes'? > The answer is whenever ActiveRecord parses the string. In Rails 3, its when you call the setter. > > >> 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. > > I was just trying to point out that there may be a better way, for > example how do you know whether whether '10/2/05' is 2nd October or > 10th February? It is generally not a good idea to allow dates to be > entered for strings. One man's date is another man's exception. > Yeah, in general I agree with you. For my application, Its working great now, except for when a user uses a 2-digit year. > > Colin > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
