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    <p>I'm trying to use a textfield as a place for users to edit their birthday as a date. With the example, i'm working on, no birthday exists yet. The birthday that i'm trying to add is <code>03/21/1986</code>. </p> <p>Here's the controller method:</p> <pre><code># PUT /contacts/1/edit # actually updates the users data def update_user @userProfile = User.find(params[:id]) @userDetails = @userProfile.user_details respond_to do |format| if @userProfile.update_attributes(params[:user]) format.html { flash[:success] = "Information updated successfully" redirect_to(edit_profile_path) } else format.html { flash[:error] = resource.errors.full_messages render :edit } end end end </code></pre> <p>and here's the model method. You can see i'm calling a validation method on :birthday to convert it to a date. Everything seems to work, but nothing saves to the database and i get no errors.</p> <pre><code># validate the birthday format def birthday_is_date p 'BIRTHDAY = ' p birthday_before_type_cast new_birthday = DateTime.strptime(birthday_before_type_cast, "%m/%d/%Y").to_date p new_birthday unless(Chronic.parse(new_birthday).nil?) errors.add(:birthday, "is invalid") end birthday = new_birthday end </code></pre> <p>Here's the printout from my p statements in my model validation method</p> <pre><code>"BIRTHDAY = " "03/21/1986" 1986-03-21 12:00:00 -0600 </code></pre> <p>I've also just noticed that if i do a date of <code>10/10/1980</code>, it works just fine, and if i do a date of <code>21/03/1986</code>, i get an <code>invalid date</code> error.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong> Here's some more info that may help:</p> <p>view:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%= form_for(@userProfile, :url =&gt; {:controller =&gt; "contacts", :action =&gt; "update_user"}, :html =&gt; {:class =&gt; "form grid_6 edit_profile_form"}, :method =&gt; :put ) do |f| %&gt; ... &lt;%= f.fields_for :user_details do |d| %&gt; &lt;%= d.label :birthday, raw("Birthday &lt;small&gt;mm/dd/yyyy&lt;/small&gt;") %&gt; &lt;%= d.text_field :birthday %&gt; ... &lt;% end %&gt; </code></pre> <p>user model</p> <pre><code>class User &lt; ActiveRecord::Base ... # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me, :username, :login, :home_phone, :cell_phone, :work_phone, :birthday, :home_address, :work_address, :position, :company, :user_details_attributes validates_presence_of :email has_one :user_details, :dependent =&gt; :destroy accepts_nested_attributes_for :user_details end </code></pre> <p>user_details model</p> <pre><code>require 'chronic' class UserDetails &lt; ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user validate :birthday_is_date attr_accessible :first_name, :last_name, :home_phone, :cell_phone, :work_phone, :birthday, :home_address, :work_address, :position, :company # validate the birthday format def birthday_is_date p 'BIRTHDAY = ' p birthday_before_type_cast new_birthday = DateTime.strptime(birthday_before_type_cast, "%m/%d/%Y").to_date p new_birthday unless(Chronic.parse(new_birthday).nil?) errors.add(:birthday, "is invalid") end birthday = new_birthday end end </code></pre>
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    1. COYou're stripping out month-day-year in that order when you do `%m/%d/%Y` so `21/03/1986` would correspond to the 21st month of the year.
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    2. COCan you elaborate on what i need to change to fix it?
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    3. CO@Catfish Does it mean you don't even know the meaning of `"%m/%d/%Y"` ?
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