I''m using the date_select and datetime_select helpers in my view, and
they return Date classes from the params hash.
But how do I work with Date classes, they don''t print human readable
dates or times, Time classes work well I can use strftime("%H:%M") to
print to the screen.
Is it possible to convert a Date to a Time, Ive been tinkering in irb
but have got nowhere slowly.
I also find it a bit odd that the Time class includes a Date... If there
was no Date class I could understand a Time class having a date. There
is also DateTime class!
Many thanks, K.
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On 5/17/06, Kris <kris@alternativefocusmedia.com> wrote:> This has to be simple, everybody must be doing it since the time and > date helpers return ''useless'' Date classes... >Try this: date = Date.today time = date.to_time And you have your time object. -- D. Taylor Singletary Reality Technician "Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there''s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?" - Richard Brautigan
D. Taylor Singletary wrote:> Try this: > > date = Date.today > time = date.to_time > > And you have your time object.Exactly what I thought. I just tried it in irb and, instead, I got "NoMethodError: undefined method `to_time'' for #<Date: 4907745/2,0,2299161>" I started the irb session with "require ''date'' " Any ideas why the to_time failed? Best regards, Bill
This is a rails extension. Try it in a "ruby script/console" setting. Jeff Bill Walton wrote:> D. Taylor Singletary wrote: > >> Try this: >> >> date = Date.today >> time = date.to_time >> >> And you have your time object. > > Exactly what I thought. I just tried it in irb and, instead, I got > "NoMethodError: undefined method `to_time'' for #<Date: > 4907745/2,0,2299161>" > > I started the irb session with "require ''date'' " > > Any ideas why the to_time failed? > > Best regards, > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Hi Jeff, Jeff Berg wrote:> This is a rails extension. > > Try it in a "ruby script/console" setting.That works. So irb is interactive Ruby and script\console is interactive Rails? Thanks, Bill
On 5/17/06, Bill Walton <bill.walton@charter.net> wrote:> > That works. So irb is interactive Ruby and script\console is interactive > Rails? >Actually script/console is a wrapper around irb. It loads it with the current configuration environment (e.g. ''development'',) the completion library and takes an option to load a sandbox (-s, --sandbox) to roll back any changes to your database you made with the console. You can even swap out another irb for the one it defaults to (--irb=/path/to/irb) Ed> Thanks, > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Ed Howland http://greenprogrammer.blogspot.com
Ed Howland wrote:> Actually script/console is a wrapper around irb.<snip> Thanks, Ed! I appreciate the explanation. Best regards, Bill
I seem to have a problem with this: d = Date.new t = d.to_time ArgumentError: argument out of range from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb:26:in ''local'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb:26:in ''to_time'' from (irb):20 I''m doing this from the console... I also tried t = d.to_time(:local) which gives the same error... Any ideas? As a second thing how do I get the day as in Monday, tuesday etc. from a date? Many thanks, K. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> I seem to have a problem with this: > > d = Date.new > t = d.to_time<...>> I also tried t = d.to_time(:local) which gives the same error... > > Any ideas? > > As a second thing how do I get the day as in Monday, tuesday etc. from a > date?<...> What are you trying to do? To get current (according to your system) weekday? wd = Date::DAYNAMES[Time.new.wday] Time.new creates an instance of Time with the current system time. Date.new creates an instance of Date for Juliand Day zero, which is... far far away in the past (and indeed out of range for Time wich counts from Jan 1st 1970). Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/
Rimantas Liubertas wrote:>> I seem to have a problem with this: >> >> d = Date.new >> t = d.to_time > <...> >> I also tried t = d.to_time(:local) which gives the same error... >> >> Any ideas? >> >> As a second thing how do I get the day as in Monday, tuesday etc. from a >> date? > <...> > > What are you trying to do? To get current (according to your system) > weekday? > > wd = Date::DAYNAMES[Time.new.wday]This works, I did''nt know you had to put the class/module name before the array you are trying to use. What does the :: mean?> > Time.new creates an instance of Time with the current system time. > Date.new creates > an instance of Date for Juliand Day zero, which is... far far away in > the past (and indeed out of range for Time wich counts from Jan 1st > 1970). > > > Regards, > Rimantas-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.