ActiveRecord date field

[Avery Wilkening]

By accident, I just realized that an ActiveRecord date field can be set
using a third way...

foo = Fo.new
foo.start_date = Date.new(2016, 1, 31)
foo.start_date = '2016-01-31'

and to my surprise...

foo.start_date = '31/1/2016'

Where can I find documentation on this? I've searched to the point of
wasting my time.

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[Frederick Cheung]

On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 4:26:19 PM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

By accident, I just realized that an ActiveRecord date field can be set
using a third way...

foo = Fo.new
foo.start_date = Date.new(2016, 1, 31)
foo.start_date = '2016-01-31'

and to my surprise...

foo.start_date = '31/1/2016'

Where can I find documentation on this? I've searched to the point of
wasting my time.

In the most general case, active record ends up calling Date._parse ( http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.3.1/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html#method-c-_parse ) from the ruby stdlib which tries to guess/handle all sorts of different formats  ( https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/date/date_parse.c ) but without documenting what they are (as far as I can see)

Fred 

[botp]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Avery Wilkening <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Where can I find documentation on this?

there are lots, try this eg
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/how-rails-works-type-casting
just remember, this is ruby, and "foo=" can be a method call.

kind regards --botp