From: Johan Allard <johan@...>
Date: 2004-12-11T07:13:01+09:00
Subject: Date manipulation in rails

Hi all,

I live in australia in in Australia dates are written as DD/MM/YYYY. In 
the database, the dates are stored as YYYY-MM-DD. I want to use the 
before_validation function and check if #{(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)} and then 
convert to the correct iso date format.

The problem is that when the before_validation function kicks in, the 
date variable is now a Date object. It is no longer a string, and it 
has been formatted using the american MM/DD/YYYY format to YYYY-MM-DD. 
Since it is a date object, it is not possible to check how the date was 
formatted.

Currently I run the check in the controller and to keep the model 
intact it would be fantastic if there was a way of doing this in the 
before_validation function (or similar) instead.

Thank you

//johan