Can't get Flatpickr to display the Rails date value from my database....

[adrienpoly]

Can't get Flatpickr to display the Rails date value from my database....

[k2director]

HI Adrien, I'm sorry for the delay, I had been pulled to another project last week. But I just got back to Flatpickr and YES, you were right about fixing it by converting my Date field to Datetime, like so:

  flatpickr_default_date: invoice.due_date.to_datetime,

So going forward, I will create my Date fields as Datetimes, for a little more flexibility.

THANK YOU, I'm really enjoying having such an easy way to handle date picking in a Rails-friendly way...

H

[adrienpoly]

In the Rails app example here is how I pass the date from the backend to Flatpickr
https://github.com/adrienpoly/rails_stimulus_flatpickr/blob/master/app/views/appointments/_datepicker.html.erb

so using the default_date is the way to go

maybe the problem comes from your field being a Date and not a DateTime. This could explain why Time.zone.now works

looking at the flatpickr doc here are the accepted format for the default date
https://flatpickr.js.org/examples/#supplying-dates-for-flatpickr
so make sure invoice.due_date returns one of the accepted format
maybe you can try invoice.due_date.to_datetime

[adrienpoly]

Closing this for now.
Feel free to re open it if you still have the issue