Does rails do any validation for datetime? I found a plugin http://github.com/adzap/validates_timeliness/tree/master, but it seems like something that should come in out of the box.
See Question&Answers more detail:osDoes rails do any validation for datetime? I found a plugin http://github.com/adzap/validates_timeliness/tree/master, but it seems like something that should come in out of the box.
See Question&Answers more detail:osThere's no built-in ActiveRecord validator for DateTimes, but you can easily add this sort of capability to an ActiveRecord model, without using a plugin, with something like this:
class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
validate :happened_at_is_valid_datetime
def happened_at_is_valid_datetime
errors.add(:happened_at, 'must be a valid datetime') if ((DateTime.parse(happened_at) rescue ArgumentError) == ArgumentError)
end
end