Rails - Apr 2010 - How to: Set a datetime params-value to nil in the controller

Hi there,

Suppose I submit an object called "task" from a form with...

  task[enddate(1i)]  ->  2011
  task[enddate(2i)]  ->  3
  task[enddate(3i)]  ->  1

...how do I set the value ''params[:task][:enddate]'' to
''nil'' in the
controller?

I tried...

  params[:task][:enddate] = nil

...but that doesn''t seem to "empty" the attribute
''enddate''. What am I
getting wrong?

Thanks for your help!
Tom
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On 22 April 2010 15:22, Tom Ha
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wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Suppose I submit an object called "task" from a form with...
>
>  task[enddate(1i)]  ->  2011
>  task[enddate(2i)]  ->  3
>  task[enddate(3i)]  ->  1
>
> ...how do I set the value ''params[:task][:enddate]'' to
''nil'' in the
> controller?
>
> I tried...
>
>  params[:task][:enddate] = nil
>
> ...but that doesn''t seem to "empty" the attribute
''enddate''. What am I
> getting wrong?
It is difficult to see how that line could not set
params[:task][:enddate] to nil, assuming it did not generate an error
such as it would if params[:task] were nil.  Are you sure it is
executing that line of code?  You could break in at that point using
ruby-debug and check.  See the rails guide on debugging for how to do
it (google rails guides).

Colin

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On 22 April 2010 15:22, Tom Ha
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> ...how do I set the value ''params[:task][:enddate]'' to
''nil'' in the
> controller?
>
> I tried...
>
>  params[:task][:enddate] = nil
>
> ...but that doesn''t seem to "empty" the attribute
''enddate''. What am I
> getting wrong?
If it doesn''t "empty" (whatever you mean by that) the
:enddate entry,
what *does* it do?

I''ve just had a play in the console, and it all seems to work as
expected:
>> params = {:task => {:enddate => Date.today.to_s}}
=> {:task=>{:enddate=>"2010-04-22"}}
>> params[:task][:enddate]
=> "2010-04-22"
>> params[:task][:enddate] = nil
=> nil
>> params
=> {:task=>{:enddate=>nil}}
>> params[:task][:enddate]
=> nil

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Thanks for your inputs.

Unfortunately, I can add that:

1. Yes, the code definitely GETS executed
2. No, params[:task] is definitely NOT nil
2. Other values of the Task object in params CAN be set to nil, for 
example...

   params[:task][:name] = nil

...works correctly.

Could it be that "...[:enddate]" is not sufficient in...

  params[:task][:enddate]

...because the date gets submitted by a date_select? When I check what 
values get passed to params, I see...

  task[enddate(1i)]  ->  2011
  task[enddate(2i)]  ->  3
  task[enddate(3i)]  ->  1

Could it be that the problem stems from the "(1i), (2i), (3i)" part?

Any ideas?
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On 22 April 2010 17:58, Tom Ha
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wrote:
> Thanks for your inputs.
>
> Unfortunately, I can add that:
>
> 1. Yes, the code definitely GETS executed
> 2. No, params[:task] is definitely NOT nil
> 2. Other values of the Task object in params CAN be set to nil, for
> example...
>
>   params[:task][:name] = nil
>
> ...works correctly.
>
> Could it be that "...[:enddate]" is not sufficient in...
>
>  params[:task][:enddate]
>
> ...because the date gets submitted by a date_select? When I check what
> values get passed to params, I see...
>
>  task[enddate(1i)]  ->  2011
>  task[enddate(2i)]  ->  3
>  task[enddate(3i)]  ->  1
>
> Could it be that the problem stems from the "(1i), (2i), (3i)"
part?
Well yes, quite likely.  So when you said that params[:task][:enddate]
was not getting set to nil, did you actually mean that the date in the
database when you save it is not cleared?  It looks like it might be
an idea to clear the three values in params that are used for setting
the date.  If you are not sure of the format then use ruby-debug to
break in, then you can inspect params and see exactly what is there so
you can clear it.

Colin

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On Apr 22, 5:58 pm, Tom Ha <li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> ...because the date gets submitted by a date_select? When I check what
> values get passed to params, I see...
>
>   task[enddate(1i)]  ->  2011
>   task[enddate(2i)]  ->  3
>   task[enddate(3i)]  ->  1
>
> Could it be that the problem stems from the "(1i), (2i), (3i)"
part?
>
> Any ideas?
Unless i''ve misunderstood what you are attempting, you need to clear
out the 3 parts of end date. You can''t remove params[:task][:enddate]
because it doesn''t exist - when activerecord sees parameters with the
appropriate naming convention it gathers them together to create an
instance of Time and assigns that to the task''s enddate. If you want
to set enddate to nil it would probably be enough to remove those 3
parts and then set params[:task][:enddate] to nil (although why jump
through all those hoops and not just do some_task.enddate = nil ?)

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Thanks for the explanations - they helped!
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