similar to: US Date Handling in Rails

Hi, I''m trying to create a method to return a random date within a range. So far, I''ve come up with this... require ''parsedate'' def random_date (a, b) adate = ParseDate.parsedate(a) bdate = ParseDate.parsedate(b) atime = Time.local(*adate) btime = Time.local(*bdate) atime + (rand * (atime - btime) ) end ...and it doesn''t seem to

hi, overhere users go nuts if they have to enter the date in iso format, so i have to make my applications in such a way that not only dates are displayed in the "dd-mm-yyy" format but also can be entered in that way. somewhere i found this code to put in the environment script: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( :default => ''%d/%m/%Y

Hi, I''m trying to use ParseDate within a for loop but I get this error: can''t dup NilClass Any suggestions for making this work? Thanks, -Jason

Does anyone know if a Ruby package has been written to handle functionality similar to php''s strtotime(). I''m looking for something that can parse almost any string (such as "1 day ago", "+1 week", "last tuesday") into a timestamp. I''ve played with ParseDate, but it doesn''t seem to do what I need. Any suggestions? Derek

in my booking / _form I have the following input fields : (startdate and endate) <div> <label for="startdate">Booking Start Date</label><br /> <%= text_field_tag(''startdate'', @startdate, {:class => @startdateclass, :readonly => "readonly", :maxlength => "25"} ) %> <%= observe_field("startdate",

Hello Everyone, Has anyone tried to install BackupPC v4 on CentOS 8 from epel? I just did and this happened: [root at resurrect ~]# dnf --enablerepo epel install BackupPC Last metadata expiration check: 0:18:41 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 08:03:59 PM EDT. Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides par2cmdline needed by BackupPC-4.3.1-2.el8.x86_64 - nothing provides

The input values could be something like this: 01-Dec-2006 01-December-2006 1-June-2006 Is there an easy to way to get the three variables populated dd, mmm and yyyy for any of the above input values? I tried to look at regex but couldn'' anything simple. Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''ve tried Time.parse() and DateTime.parse() but they interpret the date as US format. Is there any way to tell it to interpret as dd/mm/yyyy? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

##### BEGIN CODE ###### #!/usr/bin/perl ###### # # --start, -s = The date you would like to start generating regressors #--end, -e = When to stop generating holiday regressros # --scope, -c = D, W for Daily or Weekly respectively (e.g. Does this week have a particular holiday) # --file, -f = Ummm where to write the output silly! # # **NOTE** The EOM holiday is "End of Month" for

Here is the correct version. The old version is the redirect only version of the script. ### BEGIN SCRIPT #### #!/usr/bin/perl ###### # --start, -s = The date you would like to start generating regressors #--end, -e = When to stop generating holiday regressros # --scope, -c = D, W for Daily or Weekly respectively (e.g. Does this week have a particular holiday) # --file, -f = Ummm where to write

Hey All, Anyone know of a library for parsing "human" dates, like "this friday" or "2 days ago"? I used to use strtotime in php, but starting from here; http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/PhpStrtotime and doing lots of googling, I haven''t been able to find anything similar for ruby. I know of javascript solutions to this, but I''d need to do

In a model I have following validates_format_of. Is there an easy way to DRY this up? It seems to be rather repetitive. validates_format_of :expiration_date, :with => /^[0-9]{4}[-][0-9]{2}[-][0-9]{2}$/ validates_format_of :activation_date, :with => /^[0-9]{4}[-][0-9]{2}[-][0-9]{2}$/ validates_format_of :some_other_date, :with =>

Hi, I''m having an issue with calling a function that I''ve defined in ApplicationHelper called format_time: module ApplicationHelper def format_time(time) time.strftime("%a %b %d, %I:%M%p") end end I use this function in my views to format the Time.now that I would have stored in my tables as a DATETIME. I''m able to use this function, without any

Has anyone had any luck using the CalendarHelper plugin at http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/CalendarHelper recently? I''m scratching my head over the following error when I look at any page in my application: NameError in CalendarController#index undefined local variable or method `date_format'' for #<CalendarController:0x24ccd4c> RAILS_ROOT:

Is there any Ruby / Rails way to take a string and convert it to time? timefstr Specificallc,y I''d like to convert iso 8601 fromats to Ruby Time objects or ActiveRecord time fields. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I use the following code in my view: <%= collection_select(''datedata'', ''date'', @allDate, :id, :date) %> It''s show me the date of all entries in the database (Dropdown menu). Additional, I wrote a helper method "showDate" in the application_helper.rb! How can I use this method in the collection_select for every date entry? thanks

If anyone is interested ... just in case! :-)... I have tried to write , based on the cdr_mysql.so module, an Sybase module. To compile you can use something like that: export SYBPLATFORM=linux export SYBASE=/opt/sybase cc -I$SYBASE/include -c -o cdr_sybase.o cdr_sybase.c cc -shared -Xlinker -x -o cdr_sybase.so cdr_sybase.o -lsybdb -lm -L$SYBASE/lib (anyone could write the corect Makefile

In my booking/_form.rhtml, I have 2 <input text fields> startingdate (selction from unobstrusive calendar ) and endingdate <div> <label for="startdate">Booking Start Date</label><br /> <%= text_field_tag(''startdate'', @startdate, {:class => @startdateclass, :readonly => "readonly", :maxlength => "25"}

So, I''ve used Rails to tie into a legacy system which is on SQL Server 2000 with a required timestamp field, DBTimeStamp. The field is defined in SQL Server as type timestamp, but when rails is pulling it in, it appears it may be casting to a datetime format. So, when I try to read or write to the field, it gives me a parsing error: NoMethodError: private method

Hello, What''s the best way to deal with dates prior to 1970 using Rails. I''ve seen some suggestions for hacks to fallback to the Date class if Time fails, but I''m not sure exactly how to implement them. This is from the wiki require ''date'' # It''s necessary to do this, because Time doesn''t # support dates before 1970... class