From: Jason  Vogel <jasonvogel@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T13:30:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions for a date picker that supports mm/yyyy

Sorry, I definitely should have been clearer.

Under Rails  I was also thinking Javascript/Ajax (technically).  I'll
ask over in the RoR group too.

I asked the question here because I was thinking the validation would
be in Ruby.

Thanks Paul and Gavin,
Jason

On Dec 11, 5:49 pm, "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kist...@anark.com> wrote:
> From: Jason Vogel [mailto:jasonvo...@gmail.com]
>
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:30 PM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Suggestions for a date picker that supports mm/yyyy
>
> > Does anyone have some suggestions for a date picker that supports
> > mm/yyyy.Er, under what UI? Text/console? WxRuby? RubyCocoa? Rails?
>
> Under the guess that you're confusing "Ruby, the Language" with "Ruby on
> Rails, the Web Framework that happens to be implemented using Ruby", you
> might want to re-ask your question on the Ruby on Rails group:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk
>
> > Also, does anyone know the "best" way to validate a mm/yyyy
> > as "valid"? Meaning this month or the future?How about this hack that probably fails near the last day of the month:
>
> require 'date'
> d1 = "12/2006"
> d2 = "13/2007"
> d3 = "10/2005"
> d4 = "11/2006"
> d5 = "12/2006"
>
> [d1,d2,d3,d4,d5].each{ |datestring|
>   begin
>     d = Date.strptime( "28 #{datestring}", '%d %m/%Y' )
>     raise if d < Date.today
>     puts "OK: #{d}"
>   rescue
>     puts "BAD DATE: #{datestring}"
>   end
>
> }#=> OK: 2006-12-28
> #=> BAD DATE: 13/2007
> #=> BAD DATE: 10/2005
> #=> BAD DATE: 11/2006
> #=> OK: 2006-12-28