Accessing datetime elements from hash passed to method

Rails
1

I’m passing hash (called ‘params’) to a method. Some keys (one of them
is called ‘starts_at’) in that hash have date as a value (taken from
datetime_select helper). I want to access the date elements like date
only or time only but I’m just out of ideas.

def self.new_meeting(params)
str = params[‘starts_at(1i)’]
puts str
end

This returns nothing.

def self.new_meeting(params)
str = params[:starts_at]
puts str
end

This returns whole date with time.

Ruby 1.9.2
Rails 3.0.7

Can you help a newbie??

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On Aug 6, 7:20pm, Jarek P. [email protected] wrote:

This returns nothing.

Can you help a newbie??

Time/date objects have methods like year, month, day etc. which return
the individual components

Fred

3

Time/date objects have methods like year, month, day etc. which return
the individual components

Well I know that but, can you, please, tell how to use those methods in
my example?

str.year doesn’t work

4

On 6 August 2011 20:50, Jarek P. [email protected] wrote:

Time/date objects have methods like year, month, day etc. which return
the individual components

Well I know that but, can you, please, tell how to use those methods in
my example?

I don’t know the format of you params string but you can probably use
something like
starts_at = Time.parse( params[:starts_at] )
puts starts_at.year

Colin

5

starts_at = Time.parse( params[:starts_at] )
puts starts_at.year

Colin, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you! :slight_smile:

6

Jarek P. wrote in post #1015315:

starts_at = Time.parse( params[:starts_at] )
puts starts_at.year

Colin, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you! :slight_smile:

Well, you lied. You didn’t have a Date, you had a String.

7

Well, you lied. You didn’t have a Date, you had a String.

I’m not saying that I know what I’m talking about :slight_smile:

I’m newbie but I didn’t lie.

What I said was:
“…date as a value (taken from
datetime_select helper)”

if it was a String then datetime_select returns a string, or Dates are
Strings but with some order.

I’m getting confused now.

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On 6 August 2011 22:57, Jarek P. [email protected] wrote:

if it was a String then datetime_select returns a string, or Dates are
Strings but with some order.

I’m getting confused now.

I think values in params hash are always strings as they are just the
strings taken from the http request. As you said, you never said that
you had a Date object.

Colin