Advice, why value_before_type_cast in FormHelper?

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I am wondering why is in creating text fields with form_helper used
value_before_type_cast instead of attribute value for field value?

I set rails enviroment so date fields are in european format
(dd.mm.yyyy) and would like to have same format in forms, but because of
value_before_type_cast is called, form fields are filled with
‘yyyy-mm-dd’ or timestamp integer, etc.

Thoughts / comments / sugestions?
thanks in advance,

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Bojan M. wrote:

or is there any tutorial how to override fields produced with
FormHelper?

thanks,
Bojan

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I’ve asked this many times before and have never gotten an answer.

However, form fields will look at the attribute on the model if it’s
not in the database.

Here’s a simplified (non-working) example to modify the formatting of
the created_at field

class YourModel < ActiveRecord::base

def formatted_date=(date)
self.created_at = date
end

def formatted_date
# apply your special formatting here
end

end

Then, in your form, just do

<%= text_field “your_model”, “formatted_date” %>

That’s how I manage to do the special formatting that I need and still
make use of the helpers. I did write a plugin that allowed you to pass
a formatted string into the text_field helper, but I threw it away
because it was too difficult to make it work for select tags,
options_for_select, and others. I found the above approach to be a
decent solution.

If anyone from the core can comment on this, that would be great.

Hope that helps you out.

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Thanks Brian,
in the middtime I succeed to create custom date select field that works
with custom date format (dd.mm.yyyy). There were few new problems I run
into while solving these so I would post all the code and explanation on
my site asap.

best regards,
Bojan

Brian H. wrote:

def formatted_date=(date)
Then, in your form, just do
If anyone from the core can comment on this, that would be great.

(dd.mm.yyyy) and would like to have same format in forms, but
thanks,

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