Comments for Rebecca's Ramblings

Comment on Spam comments are getting inventive by Elliot Smith

Elliot Smith — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:12:15 +0000

Three years between blog entries: must be some kind of record How are things?

Comment on “Time” columns and Rails by Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:46:13 +0000

No progress on my part, I’m afraid, Patrick. I stopped working with ruby/rails a couple of months after my original post and so the incentive to fix it disappeared…

Comment on “Time” columns and Rails by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:58:00 +0000

Yes, unfortunately still relevant in 2011…

Has there been any official progress made on this? I haven’t seen anything on Google / stackoverflow.

Thanks!

Comment on “Time” columns and Rails by jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:07:50 +0000

still useful in 2011.

Comment on How to get references, functions etc into your Rails test database by Greg

Greg — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:42:54 +0000

Thanks Rebecca. Just what I needed.

Comment on Eclipse on Ubuntu gotcha by Harsha

Harsha — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:48:01 +0000

You genius. Thank you so much.

Comment on Running rake in production mode by Daniela

Daniela — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:26:07 +0000

Thanks Rebecca,
just what I needed to know!
Daniela

Comment on Eclipse on Ubuntu gotcha by Phil

Phil — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:52:14 +0000

Thank you! Your solution was so easy - why did I even bother looking at the Eclipse web site for an answer?

Comment on “Time” columns and Rails by chris

chris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:05:46 +0000

Thank you for explaining this!

Comment on “Time” columns and Rails by Steve

Steve — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:55:48 +0000

I am *so* pleased to have stumbled across this discussion. Newbie that I am in Rails, I thought I was missing something basic. I’m trying to develop a booking application for the photo studio I work for. Most of our assignments are only a few hours long. Few span multiple days. I am happy to use a datetime object for when an assignment starts, but I’m astonished that I can’t find a way to set a time exclusive of a date for when it ends. For example - a hypothetical assignment might be “Monday, May 5, 2008 from 10AM - 3:45PM”. Up until the 3:45PM part a standard datetime entry in the database is perfect. But I can’t believe I can’t use a form helper to just set an hour/minute end time. I didn’t find the “dummy date” to be 2000-01-01 though - my experiments so far seem to indicate that the current date is tacked onto the time. That means that in the example I gave above what is really being stored in the database is basically this (given that I am writing this on March 28, 2008):
“Monday, May 5, 2008 from 10AM - Friday, March 28, 2008 3:45PM”
That’s nuts!
Anyway - if I’m missing something obvious maybe someone can point me in the right direction. And if in fact this is not currently implemented in Rails I sure hope Uwe and Rebecca come up with a solution pretty quickly!

Steve