Question

My users input american formatted dates (mm/dd/yyyy). When the model is saved the date attributes turn to nil:

my_model.start_date = "07/30/2011"

puts my_model.start_date
nil

I get an invalid date error if I do this in the console:

Date.parse("07/30/2011")

How do you force the app to accept american date format? I know the app should handle localization correctly but a patch is what I need for the short term.

Answer 1

I found a gem that does the same thing and all you have to do is put this in your gem file:

gem 'american_date'

I know this is a sort of old post, but i figured this may help other people and is a little easier than the monkey patch.