Date in controller? Killing me!

Rails
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Hi:

I’ve tackled this problem three seperate times with a couple of posts
and still can’t get it to work.

All I really want to do is grab a value in not-exactly date format and
put it in a mysql database datetime column with a time of zero. The
frustrating thing is that I’ve tried it in the console and it’s totally
working. But when I go back to the DB, it’s just not there:

@task = Task.new(params[:task])

@task.duedate = params[:task][:duedate]
@task.save!

Pretty simple, right? It’s not there. I also put it in a session
variable just to make sure I’m actually getting the value from paras -
no problem, it’s there:

session[:duedate] = params[:task][:duedate]

But still not in the DB. I’ve tried it a bunch of different ways,
including trying a session variable

@date = params[:task][:duedate]
@task.duedate = @date

That didn’t work. The really bad part - when I just try a string:

@task.duedate = “04/03/2007”

Again, nothing, even though in the console, I was able to get it to
work.

What the heck am I doing wrong? Any help you can give would be greatly
appreciated! As you can see, I’m going nuts!

Thanks in advance!

Mike

2

Try @task.duedate = “2007-04-03”

On Feb 18, 2:34 pm, Mike D. [email protected]

3

Why are you setting the duedate separately? From your code, the :duedate
field is in the :task hash, so if there’s a database column called
duedate on the table task, it should work automatically.

I would focus on the format of the date coming in. Are you letting the
user type in any date they’d like? The the other respondent, MySQL
expects dates in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Mike D. wrote:

Hi:

I’ve tackled this problem three seperate times with a couple of posts
and still can’t get it to work.

All I really want to do is grab a value in not-exactly date format and
put it in a mysql database datetime column with a time of zero. The
frustrating thing is that I’ve tried it in the console and it’s totally
working. But when I go back to the DB, it’s just not there:

@task = Task.new(params[:task])

@task.duedate = params[:task][:duedate]
@task.save!

Pretty simple, right? It’s not there. I also put it in a session
variable just to make sure I’m actually getting the value from paras -
no problem, it’s there:

session[:duedate] = params[:task][:duedate]

But still not in the DB. I’ve tried it a bunch of different ways,
including trying a session variable

@date = params[:task][:duedate]
@task.duedate = @date

That didn’t work. The really bad part - when I just try a string:

@task.duedate = “04/03/2007”

Again, nothing, even though in the console, I was able to get it to
work.

What the heck am I doing wrong? Any help you can give would be greatly
appreciated! As you can see, I’m going nuts!

Thanks in advance!

Mike