Ruby on Rails

On 17 May 2011 21:37, TomRossi7 <tom@themolehill.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:51:38 PM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 17 May 2011 17:11, TomRossi7 <t...@themolehill.com> wrote:
>> > Does anyone know how to change the default option for the Date.parse
>> > (which ActiveRecord is using on all date fields).  I would like the
>> > "comp" option to default to true so I don't have to account for 2-
>> > digit dates throughout my application.
>> >
>> > http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/classes/Date.html#M001228
>>
>> Do you mean you are giving ActiveRecord a string and expecting it to
>> parse it into a Date as it writes it to the database?

I am still not sure I understand the question - is the answer to the
above question 'yes'?

>> If so that is
>> generally very dangerous.  It is much better to parse it yourself into
>> a Date so that you can be sure you are interpreting the input
>> correctly, and can cope with parse errors.  Then pass the Date to
>> ActiveRecord.  Or perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are doing.
>
> ActiveRecord typically does a great job in typecasting, handling exceptions,
> and validation so I'm not sure what you mean.  Though, this is probably a
> different discussion altogether since my original question was just how to
> tweak the options for the current parsing that ActiveRecord is already
> doing.

I was just trying to point out that there may be a better way, for
example how do you know whether whether '10/2/05' is 2nd October or
10th February? It is generally not a good idea to allow dates to be
entered for strings. One man's date is another man's exception.

Colin

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