Hi everyone, I have a form that has a date_select form field. Now for some reasons out of my control I need to save the date generated by date_select to a ''text'' field in mysql 5.0. Now i''ve been reading the ruby API for date and datetime objects...but so far I''m reallly lost. So to sum it up I have to make date(1i), date(2i), date(3i) into a mysql 5.0 text field...And of course I have to be able to retrieve that date from mysql (in a string format) and make a ruby Date object out of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Jd P.S. I also need to do the same thing with a datetime_select field. Any advice on that one?