Date fields

[jeremyevans]

Google Group Post: https://groups.google.com/g/ruby-forme/c/RopRYYqywZU
Google Group Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:33:10 -0700
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On my old form, my sales date came back looking like this:

<input name='saledate' size='12' type='text' value='2014 May 18’>

Forme is giving me this:

<input id='order_saledate' name='order[saledate]' type='datetime' value='2014-05-18 18:22:18+00:00’>

Forme, of course, is doing it properly. (I need to look into why the time zone is wrong…) I was thinking “wait, what? I mean, yea, I like having just the date, but it is a datetime field, so what happened to the rest of it?”

It didn’t take me long to find

when :datetime, :date, :time then newfield <= {:value=>(@owner[fieldname])?@owner[fieldname].strftime("%Y %b %d") : "” }

in my code. Fine and dandy.

BUT!

I would like to have my datetimes show up in something more readable than the default. I looked at formatters, but I couldn’t find an example for how to extend the class.

I did rewrite the existing format_datetime method, adding

@attr[:value] = @attr[:value].strftime("%Y %b %d %H:%M") if @attr[:value]

That worked, but I’m sure that’s not the ‘right’ way to do it. (For one thing, it’s going to truncate the seconds whether or not the user changes the field.) How do you think this should be handled? I don’t particularly want to use the :as=>:select here.

[jeremyevans]

Google Group Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:22:43 -0700
Google Group Sender: [email protected]

On Monday, May 19, 2014 2:33:10 PM UTC-7, Dave Howell wrote:

On my old form, my sales date came back looking like this:

<input name='saledate' size='12' type='text' value='2014 May 18’>

Forme is giving me this:

<input id='order_saledate' name='order[saledate]' type='datetime'
value='2014-05-18 18:22:18+00:00’>

Forme, of course, is doing it properly. (I need to look into why the time
zone is wrong…) I was thinking “wait, what? I mean, yea, I like having just
the date, but it is a datetime field, so what happened to the rest of
it?”

It didn’t take me long to find

when :datetime, :date, :time then newfield <=
{:value=>(@owner[fieldname])?@owner[fieldname].strftime("%Y %b %d") : "” }

in my code. Fine and dandy.

BUT!

I would like to have my datetimes show up in something more readable
than the default. I looked at formatters, but I couldn’t find an example
for how to extend the class.

I did rewrite the existing format_datetime method, adding

@attr[:value] = @attr[:value].strftime("%Y %b %d %H:%M") if
@attr[:value]

That worked, but I’m sure that’s not the ‘right’ way to do it. (For one
thing, it’s going to truncate the seconds whether or not the user changes
the field.) How do you think this should be handled? I don’t particularly
want to use the :as=>:select here.

Look at the html_usa serializer, which will switch the serialization to use
american style dates by overriding format_date and format_time. It also
uses text instead of date/datetime for input type, since html 5
date/datetime inputs expect the date in ISO format.

Thanks,
Jeremy