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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 45

Rails date_select values always 0

I've been trying for a while but I can't seem to access date_select values.

The view looks like this: 

<%= form_for(@product) do |form| %>

  ...

  <%= form.label :release_date %>
  <%= date_select :@product, :release_date %>

  ...

When the form is submitted I can see that the values are definitely there as the POST contains:

Parameters: ... "product"=> { "@product"=>{"release_date(1i)"=>"2016", "release_date(2i)"=>"4", "release_date(3i)"=>"13"} ... }

From the answer to a similar question; How to get a Date from date_select or select_date in Rails? it would seem that the correct code to get the value from the key "release_date(1i)" should be something like: 

product = params[:product] 
date = product["release_date(1i)"].to_i

However the value for date is always 0.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 84

Answers (2)

Pavan
Pavan

Reputation: 33542

You need to change

<%= date_select :@product, :release_date %>

to

<%= form.date_select :release_date %>

so you will get the ideal params

Parameters: ... "product"=> {"release_date(1i)"=>"2016", "release_date(2i)"=>"4", "release_date(3i)"=>"13"} ... }

and so you can do

product = params[:product] 
date = product["release_date(1i)"].to_i

Upvotes: 2

Philip7899
Philip7899

Reputation: 4677

Since you have do |form| in your form_for tag, you need to bind the release_date to the form's model like so:

<%= form.date_select :release_date %>

Upvotes: 1

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