similar to: extract month from date column

when retreiving a date from a DATETIME field in a database, is there a way to set the date to the value of the DB in the view? It seems to always default to the current date... if I have a field called birthdate in the users table and i do @user = User.find(@params[:id]) in my view i have a <%= date_select ''birthdate'',''user'' %> but dont know how to

I want my date fields to default to NIL or "", because the presence of a date means something. My problem is that rails is defaulting the fields to today''s date automatically when I create a new record through the scaffold. I tried removing the default ''0000-00-00'' and changing NOT NULL to NULL, but both columns get today''s date as the default

Hi, I have a field for the user which is their birthday. I am letting them edit it and then save it if they want. However, the form displays the current date/time, and when they save the form without changing the birthdate (because they do not wish to set it), the current date/time gets saved to the db. How do I do this? I thought about having a hidden field which would be the current date/time

Dear RUsers, I guess this is an easy question for someone a little familiar with programming...(which I am not)... I've got 2 colummns, one shows just dates(SST_date, Class 'Date' num), the other one shows the SeaSurfaceTemperature (SST, num) at that certain date. SST_date SST 2008-01-01 22.2 2008-01-02 21.8 2008-01-03 22.8 2008-01-04 22.9 2008-01-05 23.1 2008-01-06 23.2 ...

I am using date_select and in some instances it only shows about 10 years worth of choices. Same form on other users shows the whole range. date_select looks like this <%= date_select ''user'',''birthdate'' , :start_year => 1940 %> I would expect to always see 1940-2006 or so , but i dont always do. Is there a way to force the range or explain why i

Hi, I''m creating a date type field to put birthdate, but the years on this field only go to 2003, what should I do?? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

As an R beginner, I feel brain dead today as I can not find the answer to a relatively simple question. Given a array of string values, for example lets say "mary", "bob", "danny", "sue", and "jane". I am trying to determine how to perform a logical test to determine if a variable is an exact match for one of the string values in the array

Hello everyone, I''m almost cracking my head trying to do this birthdate validation. It turns out that I can only accept users with at least 18 years old and I''m trying to validate it writing this code on my user.rb fil at app/ models class User < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :full_name validates_presence_of :street_address validates_presence_of :city

i know it''s probably really simple, how do i work out someone''s age if i have their d.o.b. stored as a date in my db. cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

how can i calculate the age of a person using database " birth date" my teble is user and column is bday .... now i want to calculate the age will some one please tell me how can i calculate the age.. actually i want to compare my two database fields birthdate and joining date ......that is why i need this.... will someone please tell me how can i do that

I have an application that requires users to be in a specific age group, or above a certain age. For simplicity sake lets say they have to be at least 18. This is my most recent attempt to produce the desired result: validates_exclusion_of :birthday, :in => Range.new(Date.today, Date.parse( (18.years.ago).strftime(''%Y/%m/%d'') )), :message => "does not meet

hi, I want to know just enter a string value entering a numeric value is make with the function scan () or scan (nmax = ..) but it does not work for string my goal is to enter three string: name and surname and date of birth I try with this code but it shows me errors print ("enter the name") name <- scan (nmax = 1) print ("enter the first name") firstName <- scan

Hello all ! I have a model being validated that spits it''s error messages on the resulting page using: error_messages_for(:mymodel) .... Basic stuff. It''s working perfectly. Now, I have something else I want to check on the same page (that isn''t an attribute to the Model)... and am trying to add it using: @mymodel.errors.add_to_base("another error here")

Hi there, I''m experiencing something strange in rails http headers. The response comes back as text/plain. The http header looks like this: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:18:18 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_ruby/1.2.4 Ruby/1.8.4(2005-10-29) #<#<Class: 0x40a7f818>:0x40a7f778>Content-Type: text/html Cache-Control: no-cache

So I am designing a railsapp that indexes school organizations such as clubs and frats/sororities. I have decided to represent this as a graph, and that each entity is going to be just represented as a node, and the relationship between each node is going to be an edge. so basically, a frat such as "Alpha Beta Gamma" is represented as a node, and its chapters also as seperate nodes,

Is there a count_by_content alternative to the find_by_content action? This is because I''m wanting to do the following in my pagination method: def list # step 1: set the variables you''ll need page = (params[:page] ||= 1).to_i items_per_page = 20 offset = (page - 1) * items_per_page # step 2: instead of performing a find, just get a count item_count =

Hi I have the controller code as below # step 1: set the variables you''ll need page = (params[:page] ||= 1).to_i items_per_page = 20 offset = (page - 1) * items_per_page # step 2: instead of performing the full find, just find the record count @search_sd_ticket_count_result =

Hi Till now we used the rails pagination.But now onwards shifting to will_paginate The code I use currently is as below .This is with the help of find_where pluggin..A fantastic pluggin which we still want to use...I would like to know how can i modify the following code to work with will_paginate step 1: set the variables you''ll need page = (params[:page] ||= 1).to_i

def show_details @sd_ticket = ServiceDeskTicket.find(params[:id]) @servicedesk_cis = @sd_ticket.service_desk_cis end What I need is a pagination for @servicedesk_cis using the custom pagination..How can i give offset and limit to this? I have successfully done previously custom pagination in another def as below def search_sd_ticket @search_sd_ui_hash=params[:sd_ticket]

i am using date_select to allow someone to select their birthdate in a form. however date_select uses 3 wierd labels in the forms like follows: <select name="user[birthdate(1i)]"> <option value="1940">1940</option> <option value="1941">1941</option> . and then the month is user[birthdate(2i)] and so on. My issue is i dont know the