datetime_select and Active Record

rubyonrails-talk
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If I have a form similar to the one below, and 'start' is a "string" field in my Database. Is there a way to take all of the date/time params and put them into 'start' without too much hacking? I would like this to be as clean as possible.

<p><label for="start_time">Start Time</label><br/> <%= form.datetime_select 'start' %></p>

To clarify, when "new" is called, my rails app does the standard: @period = Period.new(params[:whatever])

I'd rather not break that apart if possible. Please let me know if this doesn't make sense.

Thanks!

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I don't know if I understand you correctly, but it sounds like you are concerned that the datetime select is split into multiple selection lists and you want the date stored as one attribute in the database.

If this is the case, rails should automatically 'fuse' all the parameters into one datetime value as long as your column is set to datetime and not string.

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You got it exactly, however I modified the column attribute to datetime and simply passing it back, I get an error:

You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.inject

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Nevermind, that worked perfectly. Thank you!