adzap / validates_timeliness

Hi!

I've a problem with select_date and not completed selection (ex. select only year and post)
This doesn't go well because plugin doesn't handle a nil value from ValidatesTimeliness::Formats.parse(raw_value, :datetime) on ValidatesTimeliness::ActionView::InstanceTag::value_with_timeliness method (validates_timeliness/lib/validates_timeliness/action_view/instance_tag.rb:31)

This generates an error:
ActionView::TemplateError (You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.

Backtrace:
/home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/plugins/validates_timeliness/lib/validates_timeliness/action_view/instance_tag.rb:42:in value' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/date_helper.rb:920:indatetime_selector_without_timeliness' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/plugins/validates_timeliness/lib/validates_timeliness/action_view/instance_tag.rb:28:in datetime_selector' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/date_helper.rb:907:into_date_select_tag_without_error_wrapping' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/active_record_helper.rb:268:in to_date_select_tag' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/date_helper.rb:186:indate_select' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/date_helper.rb:964:in date_select' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/app/views/people/_form.html.erb:40:inrun_erb_app47views47people47_form46html46erb_locals_f_form_object' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/app/views/people/edit_form.html.erb:6:in _run_erb_app47views47people47_edit_form46html46erb_locals_edit_form_object' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/app/views/people/_edit_form.html.erb:5:in_run_erb_app47views47people47_edit_form46html46erb_locals_edit_form_object' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/app/views/people/edit.html.erb:2:in _run_erb_app47views47people47edit46html46erb' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/app/controllers/people_controller.rb:93:inupdate' /home/giulio/myproject/trunk/app/controllers/people_controller.rb:84:in `update'

I fix this problem with a check

time_array = ValidatesTimeliness::Formats.parse(raw_value, :datetime)
unless time_array.nil?
TimelinessDateTime.new(time_array[0..5]) else
TimelinessDateTime.new([0,0,0,0,0,0]) end

But this fills wrong the year select with values around year 0 (-2 -1 0 1 2...) because it relies on base year.

Ty

G.

The plugin was woking very nice, but I changed the default locale to :es in enviroment.rb:
config.i18n.default_locale = :es

The when I ran my specs I got this error whenusing should validate_date and should validate_time:

"private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass"

after half an hour I realize the real problem was that these keys where not defined in es.yml:

validates_timeliness:

error_value_formats:
  date: '%Y-%m-%d'
  time: '%H:%M:%S'
  datetime: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

When this happend those helpers should give you a more readable message.