[Nitro] date_select bug

[Emmanuel Piperakis]

I would like to report that the xhtml.rb/date_select function should be 
changed starting the values from 0 and not from 1 for months select. As 
is, the select has an empty choice (not good) and it also keeps on 
incrementing the values everytime a save to the db occurs (the values 
1-12 do not correspond to the representation of the db).

.fill also does not work with the dates, they have to manually be assigned 
to the objects and then saved, in which case the month value (created from 
the date_select) has to be decreased by 1 in order to be saved correctly 
to the db.

<code-in the controller>
request.fill(project)
project.acquisition_date = Date.new(request['acquisition_date']['year'].to_i,
                           request['acquisition_date']['month'].to_i-1,
                           request['acquisition_date']['day'].to_i, Date::ITALY)

<code-custom date_tags for use as a row in a table>
def my_date_tag(label, id, name, val = nil)
   str = %{<tr><th>#{label}</th><td>}
   str << %{#{date_select(val, :name => name)}} if val != nil
   str << %{#{date_select(Date.today, :name => name)}} if val == nil
   str << %{</td></tr>}
   return str
end

<code-in the template>
<form method="post" name='pr_d_update' 
action='project_save/domestic/update'>
<input type="hidden" name="oid" value="#{@project.oid}" />
<table class="myform">
  #{my_date_tag(@l_contract_date,'project_contract_date','contract_date', at project.contract_date)}
</table>
</form>

I have 2 suggestions:
1) All tags should support localization, default (selected) values, 
variable ranges (for years eg), name definition (they have them now, but 
they do not work for dates, ...)
2) Automatic form generation should have on/off switches for elements of 
the object in order to display only the on ones.

Due to lack of time, I can not do the devel myself, if those changes are 
not incorporated in the next Nitro version, then from October they will be 
in my TODO: list...

Thanx


Emmanouil Piperakis (epiperak at cs.ntua.gr)
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