[Rails] Re: How to change a text field's contents to all uppercase letter

2010-03-07 Thread xxdesmus
Thank you so much for all your help! On Mar 5, 2:44 pm, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 March 2010 17:02, xxdesmus xxdes...@gmail.com wrote: So I have a bunch of form fields that I need to add up their values, and make sure their sum does not except the value entered

[Rails] Re: How to change a text field's contents to all uppercase letter

2010-03-07 Thread xxdesmus
in a form to take a value. On Mar 7, 8:45 am, xxdesmus xxdes...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you so much for all your help! On Mar 5, 2:44 pm, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 March 2010 17:02, xxdesmus xxdes...@gmail.com wrote: So I have a bunch of form fields that I need

[Rails] Re: How to change a text field's contents to all uppercase letter

2010-03-07 Thread xxdesmus
I tried date_select but I kept getting a bunch of errors. On Mar 7, 3:01 pm, Viorel viorelvl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, you don't happen to know of a simple way of implementing a date picker for a field in a form do you? I was hoping to accomplish this without needing to track down a plugin

[Rails] How to change a text field's contents to all uppercase letter

2010-03-05 Thread xxdesmus
Hi, I'm relatively new to RoR so pardon if this is a really stupid question. I have a text field where people will be entering a username. I need to figure out a way to either 1. validate the field so that it will not be accepted unless they've entered all uppercase letters for their username --

[Rails] Re: How to change a text field's contents to all uppercase letter

2010-03-05 Thread xxdesmus
I'd be putting this: def username=(value) write_attribute(:username, value.upcase) end in my controller right? Sorry for the beginning questions... On Mar 5, 11:12 am, Michael Pavling pavl...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 March 2010 16:05, Andy Jeffries andyjeffr...@gmail.com wrote: 2.

[Rails] Re: How to change a text field's contents to all uppercase letter

2010-03-05 Thread xxdesmus
When I add this to my model: def after_initialize :date = Date.today end I get this error -- /home/xxdesmus/timetool/app/models/post.rb:38: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting kEND :date = Date.today ^ when I try it this way: def after_initialize date = Date.today end