Question

Im using this gem to setup a calendar in my app. Everything is working fine except the arrows that change the month.. Getting the following error:

ArgumentError in UsersController#show

invalid date
Rails.root: /Users/nelsonkeating/Desktop/ReminDeal

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
app/controllers/users_controller.rb:13:in `show'
Request

Parameters:

{"month"=>"2012-06",
 "id"=>"7"}

users_controller.rb

def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
    @friends = @user.friends.paginate(page: params[:page])
    @date = params[:month] ? Date.parse(params[:month]) : Date.today
   end

Console:

Started GET "/users/7?month=2012-06" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-05-29 21:30:04 -0700
Processing by UsersController#show as HTML
  Parameters: {"month"=>"2012-06", "id"=>"7"}
  User Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 7 LIMIT 1
  User Load (0.1ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = ? LIMIT 1  [["id", "7"]]
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 33ms

ArgumentError (invalid date):
  app/controllers/users_controller.rb:13:in `show'

Answer 1

It is Date.parse("2012-06") causing the error.

If the date is not significant, you may try this: Date.parse("#{params[:month]}-01")