radio buttons?

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Are you expecting people to enter a date or to choose between one of several dates ?

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

if i got a couple of radio buttons on my form that i want to use a published_at field rather than a boolean field how would i go about this? I know that if i'm using a boolean i can do the following.

<%= f.radio_button :published_at, true %> Yes <%= f.radio_button :published_at, false %> No

but what would i have to change to use the datetime field?

Are you expecting people to enter a date or to choose between one of several dates ?

Fred

Hi,

i was actually hoping for when they check the yes option is puts the current time in the field. and when they click no it is removed.

Ah, so that's more than a radio button. it's some radio buttons + your
favourite date input method, together with a chunk of javascript that
does stuff to those input controls. The radio_button would be for a separate attribute (which might not
even be a real one) to published_at

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

<%= f.radio_button :published_at, false %> No

i was actually hoping for when they check the yes option is puts the current time in the field. and when they click no it is removed.

Ah, so that's more than a radio button. it's some radio buttons +
your favourite date input method, together with a chunk of javascript that does stuff to those input controls. The radio_button would be for a separate attribute (which might not even be a real one) to published_at

Fred

ahh ok! thanks, is that much more difficult to implement? i have searched for examples online and in my rails books but cannot find anything.

Not massively difficult. Not a rails issue at all though - get out
your html and javascript books to find out about event handling and so
on.

Fred