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@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ The list of validation methods available are as follows:
validates_date - validate value as date
validates_time - validate value as time only i.e. '12:20pm'
validates_datetime - validate value as a full date and time
validates - use the :timeliness key and set the type in the hash.
The validation methods take the usual options plus some specific ones to restrict
the valid range of dates or times allowed
@ -133,6 +134,19 @@ corner cases a little harder to test. In general if you are using procs or
model methods and you only care when they return a value, then they should
return nil in all other situations. Restrictions are skipped if they are nil.
=== DISPLAY INVALID VALUES IN DATE/TIME SELECT HELPERS:
The plugin has some extensions to ActionView for allowing invalid
date and time values to be redisplayed to the user as feedback, instead of
a blank field which happens by default in Rails. Though the date helpers make this a
pretty rare occurence, given the select dropdowns for each date/time component, but
it may be something of interest.
To activate it, put this in an initializer:
# in the setup block
config.enable_date_time_select_extension!
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