European date format input

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I have googled a lot on this subject but have not found an easy way to have RoR accept european date format (DD/MM/YYYY) in forms. I looked at globalize plugin but that feels heavy implementation for me because I do not need translations.

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bitterbal wrote:

I have googled a lot on this subject but have not found an easy way to have RoR accept european date format (DD/MM/YYYY) in forms. I looked at globalize plugin but that feels heavy implementation for me because I do not need translations.

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You can replace ParseDate.parsedate function which Rails use to parse dates. Find article with implementation on my blog: http://source.mihelac.org/articles/2006/09/13/parsing-european-date-format-in-ruby-rails

best regards, Bojan

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Hello,

I have googled a lot on this subject but have not found an easy way to have RoR accept european date format (DD/MM/YYYY) in forms. I looked at globalize plugin but that feels heavy implementation for me because I do not need translations.

I'm not sure if this helps you, but you can define your own data formats in environment.rb. For example:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(    :uk_full => '%e %B %Y' )

And then use the symbolic form with Date.to_s. E.g. in a view:

<%= @order.created_at.to_s :uk_full %>

Regards, Andy Stewart