Datebox initialization, dumb question

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I’ve just been testing out the dateboxes I created Friday.

They seem to be working good except I had a couple I wanted to
initialize with today’s date.

With the scaffold code it happened automatically.

With the datebox engine I’m having to do it manually.

I’m using ‘:date_started => Time.now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")’

Is there another preset variable floating around that would be cleaner?

Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

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Greg F. wrote:

I’ve just been testing out the dateboxes I created Friday.

They seem to be working good except I had a couple I wanted to
initialize with today’s date.

With the scaffold code it happened automatically.

With the datebox engine I’m having to do it manually.

I’m using ‘:date_started => Time.now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")’

Is there another preset variable floating around that would be cleaner?

If it’s datetime:

:date_started => Time.now()

If it’s date:

:dated_started => Date.today()

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On 2/21/06, Henning P. [email protected] wrote:

I’m using ‘:date_started => Time.now.strftime(“%m/%d/%Y”)’

Is there another preset variable floating around that would be cleaner?

If it’s datetime:

:date_started => Time.now()

If it’s date:

:dated_started => Date.today()

Thanks,

I saw the Date class in the ruby book, but not the today() method.

Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century