instance method `date_field`

Ruby on Rails 4.1.16

Since v4.0.13

Available in: v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

Compare with:

date_field(object_name, method, options = {})

Returns a text_field of type “date”.

date_field("user", "born_on")
# => <input id="user_born_on" name="user[born_on]" type="date" />

The default value is generated by trying to call “to_date” on the object’s value, which makes it behave as expected for instances of DateTime and ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone. You can still override that by passing the “value” option explicitly, e.g.

@user.born_on = Date.new(1984, 1, 27)
date_field("user", "born_on", value: "1984-05-12")
# => <input id="user_born_on" name="user[born_on]" type="date" value="1984-05-12" />

Parameters

object_name req
method req
options opt = {}

Source

# File actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb, line 1010
      def date_field(object_name, method, options = {})
        Tags::DateField.new(object_name, method, self, options).render
      end

Defined in actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb line 1010 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper

Signature

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