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Gainster
Gainster

Reputation: 5631

Time formatting on view

I am storing time as string in database. But at the view layer I want make sure that format for the time is validate.

Plus , how can add a lookup show am and pm.

At controller merge the 2 view level field into one and store in model.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (2)

mcamara
mcamara

Reputation: 55

Datetime is gonna be the best option for you. Storing a string for this purpose has no sense.

Moreover, it's gonna be easier to format, like

article.published_at.strftime("Published at: %d/%m/%Y %H:%M")

will be something like:

Published at: 31/05/2012 11:57

Upvotes: 1

Chamnap
Chamnap

Reputation: 4766

Why don't you store as datetime or time in your database, and use time_select helper method?

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#method-i-time_select

Upvotes: 2

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