Question

I’m passing my Rails controller a parameter that has a value of:

time = "2011-11-14T23:53:14.000Z"

For my app, I have a a database called “Reminders” with a remind_at column, which is a datetime column just like created_at and modified_at.

However I can’t figure out how I should save this. I imagine it would be something like:

r = Reminder.create(:remind_at => time)
r.save

But this does not save it properly. Am I supposde to do some conversion of some sort first? Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Yes, you need to convert it into a Time object:

time = Time.parse("2011-11-14T23:53:14.000Z")