Display date without edit.

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Pål Bergström wrote:

What if I just want to set the datetime in new and display a datetime column with it's date in edit but not let the user change it, how do I do that?

<%= you_object.your_date_field %>

Or try using the option {:disabled => true} in your form helper...

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How do I do that? This is the form:

... This is the line renders the form's contents:

  <%= render :partial => 'form' %>

It is rendering another file named "_form.rhtml" which is probably in the same folder you found the one you quoted ('new.rhtml'?). The '_' indicates the file is to be rendered as a partial (as in partial page). Look in that file and you will see where the date field is being rendered. Play with that a bit. That's where you might try Bmgz's suggestion:

Or try using the option {:disabled => true} in your form helper...

Caveat: The _form.rhtml file is used by both the 'new.rhtml' and 'edit.rhtml' pages. So if you change it it will be that way on both. To work around this you could create a different partial and render that instead...

Good luck with Rails!