Date_select -> params ok but nil

Rails
1

hi,

im kinda stuck…

<%= form_for(@event) do |f| %>

<%= f.label :from_date %>
<%= date_select :event, :from_date %>

…

def create
p params[:event].nil?
p params[:event][:name]
p params[:event][:from_date]

if params[:event][:from_date].empty?
  params[:event][:from_date] = Date.today
end

…
→
Started POST “/events” for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-11-19 17:37:09 -0500
Processing by EventsController#create as HTML
Parameters: {“utf8”=>“✓”,
“authenticity_token”=>“JannWb1XCE12AKW4KlR56LAAmIOG1raHJh1ss4v0RBA=”,
“event”=>{“name”=>“”, “from_date(1i)”=>“2014”, “from_date(2i)”=>“11”,
“from_date(3i)”=>“19”, “to_date(1i)”=>“2014”, “to_date(2i)”=>“11”,
“to_date(3i)”=>“19”}, “commit”=>“Create”}
…
…def
instantiate_controller_and_action_names"
“URL: http://localhost:3000/events”
“Fullpath: /events”
“events”
“Action: create”
“Controller: events”
false
“”
nil

→ why are my event date attributes nil/blank?

tia
tom

2

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:40 PM, tom [email protected] wrote:

Started POST “/events” for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-11-19 17:37:09 -0500
Processing by EventsController#create as HTML
Parameters: {“utf8”=>“✓”,
“authenticity_token”=>“JannWb1XCE12AKW4KlR56LAAmIOG1raHJh1ss4v0RBA=”,
“event”=>{“name”=>“”, “from_date(1i)”=>“2014”, “from_date(2i)”=>“11”,
“from_date(3i)”=>“19”, “to_date(1i)”=>“2014”, “to_date(2i)”=>“11”,
“to_date(3i)”=>“19”}, “commit”=>“Create”}

→ why are my event date attributes nil/blank?

What makes you think they are? The parameters are there.

What version of Ruby/Rails are you running?

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

twitter: @hassan

3

hi

because of this:
def create
p params[:event].nil?
p params[:event][:name]
p params[:event][:from_date]

results in:
false
“”
nil

ENV
/ruby-1.9.3-p194@my_gemset

first i thought it has something to do with gem decent_exposure, but i
have
disabled that again…

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Hassan S. <

4

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:40 AM, tom <tomabr

–> why are my event date attributes nil/blank?

i dont see “from_date”.

“from_date(1i)” not same as “from_date”

kind regards -botp

5

You’re using the f.label and date_select helpers. Try using
f.date_select ?

6

On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 17:40:50 UTC-5, der_tom wrote:

end

–> why are my event date attributes nil/blank?

The date is not sent as a single attribute, but rather one per dropdown
that date_select sends (thus from_date(1i) etc).

When those attributes are assigned to your model, they are combined into
a
single object by ActiveRecord.

You can either check for the subparts explicitly, or move the “default
to
today” behavior to the model instead.

–Matt J.

7

hi

thx for all.

the reason why i asked is because some code i have used from the
internet
was checking: params[:event][:from_date].empty? , but mine was always
nil
(as above). after assigning the params to a new model and checking then
fixed it for me.

8

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:20 PM, tom [email protected] wrote:

because of this:

p params[:event].nil?
…

p params.inspect would be more generally useful…

ENV
/ruby-1.9.3-p194@my_gemset

What version of Ruby/Rails are you running?

Again, what version of Rails?

And is there a reason to be using such an old Ruby?

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

twitter: @hassan