I''m trying to build options for a select box that would output a range of dates between two dates that I specified. For example, if my two dates (both coming from datetime fields in a MySQL database) were: October 25th, 2006 October 29th, 2006 I''d like to output options like this: (option value="2006-10-25")October 25th, 2006(/option) (option value="2006-10-26")October 26th, 2006(/option) (option value="2006-10-27")October 27th, 2006(/option) (option value="2006-10-28")October 28th, 2006(/option) (option value="2006-10-29")October 29th, 2006(/option) I can''t figure out how to get the range of dates into a collection. I tried doing: @range_of_dates = @first_date..@second_date But it didn''t work. Does anyone know how I can do this? Thanks, Sean -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Ruby DATE class implements the "upto" method, so assuming you can massage @first_date and @second_date as DATE objects, you should be able to do something like this (in your view): <% @first_date.upto(@second_date) do |date| %> (option value="<% date.to_s %>")<% date.to_s %>(/option) <% end %> Of course, you''ll need to massage the output of date.to_s to get the formats that you want - strftime method does this for Time objects, not sure if it applies for Date objects. c. Sean wrote:> I''m trying to build options for a select box that would output a range > of dates between two dates that I specified. For example, if my two > dates (both coming from datetime fields in a MySQL database) were: > > October 25th, 2006 > October 29th, 2006 > > I''d like to output options like this: > > (option value="2006-10-25")October 25th, 2006(/option) > (option value="2006-10-26")October 26th, 2006(/option) > (option value="2006-10-27")October 27th, 2006(/option) > (option value="2006-10-28")October 28th, 2006(/option) > (option value="2006-10-29")October 29th, 2006(/option) > > > I can''t figure out how to get the range of dates into a collection. I > tried doing: > @range_of_dates = @first_date..@second_date > > But it didn''t work. Does anyone know how I can do this? > > Thanks, > Sean-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Another option...
In your controller:
@range_of_dates = @first_date.upto(@second_date).map {|date| [date.to_s,
date.to_s]}
In your view:
<%=
select(''object'',''method'',@range_of_dates)
%>
Again, you''ll want to get the formats of the date.to_s correct in the
first line of code. The first date.to_s is what is used for the display,
the second is what is used for the value.
c.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---