Rails - May 2006 - question about strftime when called from partial.

Hi,

I''m calling a helper I''ve written - format_time() that is
called from my
views with a given time that was selected from my database and was returned
to the view via an instance variable.  When I call format_time from a
partial, I see that I get some kind of String error and the partial
won''t
render.  Basically, the object being passed in to format_time is already a
string and not in the Time format?   Anything special going on with
partials?

Thanks,.
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Hello Sam,

2006/5/16, Sam Donaldson <samonderous@gmail.com>:
> I''m calling a helper I''ve written - format_time() that is
called from my
> views with a given time that was selected from my database and was returned
> to the view via an instance variable.  When I call format_time from a
> partial, I see that I get some kind of String error and the partial
won''t
> render.  Basically, the object being passed in to format_time is already a
> string and not in the Time format?   Anything special going on with
> partials?
Can you be more specific ?  Show us some code ?  I do that all the
time, and I have zero problems.

Bye !
-- 
Fran?ois Beausoleil
http://blog.teksol.info/

So here is the code:

module ApplicationHelper

  def format_time(time)
    time.strftime("%a %b %d, %I:%M%p")
  end
end

and the partial gets the following error;

undefined method `strftime'' for "2006-05-13 15:15:00":String

So basically it is looking at the object as a String instead of a Time
object which is odd.

Thanks.


On 5/16/06, Francois Beausoleil <francois.beausoleil@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello Sam,
>
> 2006/5/16, Sam Donaldson <samonderous@gmail.com>:
> > I''m calling a helper I''ve written - format_time()
that is called from my
> > views with a given time that was selected from my database and was
> returned
> > to the view via an instance variable.  When I call format_time from a
> > partial, I see that I get some kind of String error and the partial
> won''t
> > render.  Basically, the object being passed in to format_time is
already
> a
> > string and not in the Time format?   Anything special going on with
> > partials?
>
> Can you be more specific ?  Show us some code ?  I do that all the
> time, and I have zero problems.
>
> Bye !
> --
> Fran?ois Beausoleil
> http://blog.teksol.info/
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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I want to add one more thing in case somebody can figure this out, so I
created another helper just for that partial called:

def format_date(time)
    new_time = Time.local(*(ParseDate.parsedate(time)))
    new_time.strftime("%a %b %d, %I:%M%p")
 end

And this worked.  So then the question is, why is it that it is coming back
as a String rather than a Time object.  The above code just takes that
string and converts it to a Time object and then does the same formatting ?

Thanks.



On 5/16/06, Sam Donaldson <samonderous@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>  So here is the code:
>
> module ApplicationHelper
>
>   def format_time(time)
>     time.strftime("%a %b %d, %I:%M%p")
>   end
> end
>
> and the partial gets the following error;
>
> undefined method `strftime'' for "2006-05-13
15:15:00":String
>
> So basically it is looking at the object as a String instead of a Time
> object which is odd.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>  On 5/16/06, Francois Beausoleil <francois.beausoleil@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Hello Sam,
>
> 2006/5/16, Sam Donaldson <samonderous@gmail.com >:
> > I''m calling a helper I''ve written - format_time()
that is called from my
> > views with a given time that was selected from my database and was
> returned
> > to the view via an instance variable.  When I call format_time from a
> > partial, I see that I get some kind of String error and the partial
> won''t
> > render.  Basically, the object being passed in to format_time is
already
> a
> > string and not in the Time format?   Anything special going on with
> > partials?
>
> Can you be more specific ?  Show us some code ?  I do that all the
> time, and I have zero problems.
>
> Bye !
> --
> Fran?ois Beausoleil
> http://blog.teksol.info/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>
>
>
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On May 16, 2006, at 9:03 PM, Sam Donaldson wrote:
> So here is the code:
>
> module ApplicationHelper
>
>   def format_time(time)
>     time.strftime("%a %b %d, %I:%M%p")
>   end
> end
>
> and the partial gets the following error;
> undefined method `strftime'' for "2006-05-13
15:15:00":String
> So basically it is looking at the object as a String instead of a  
> Time object which is odd.
Replace that with:

class Time
   def format
     strtime "%a %b %d, %I:%M%p"
   end
end

Then just call format on your Time instance directly.

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