Best approach to parse text field to 1i, 2i, 3i

[dgwmfo]

I can get the datepicker to display nicely formatted when I use 'data-provide' => 'datepicker' in my f.text_field form helper. Now I'm wondering what approach you'd suggest to parse the text_field into Rails 1i, 2i, and 3i fields so I can save the date to the database. Is the approach in Railscast #32 still applicable here? Or are there other more robust or effective strategies you could point me to?

Thanks!

[Nerian]

Hi,

Rails should be able to understand the value that comes from the datepicker.

If you wish to change the format that is displayed, you can take a look at http://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.org/en/release/options.html#format