sj26/virtus-multiparams

Rails multiparams support for virtus models

Virtus::Multiparams

Support for Rails-style multiparameters, which makes datetime_select and friends work with Virtus objects.

Rails Date, Time and DateTime selectors all use multiparameters. This means they break one attribute into separate parameters for each input, like year, month and day, and reconstitute these multiple parameters into a single parameter to be passed back into a model as an attribute.

Usage

class PostForm
  include Virtus
  include Virtus::Multiparams

  attribute :title, String
  attribute :publish_at, DateTime
end

# app/views/posts/new.html.erb
<%= form_for @post_form do |form| %>
  <%= form.label :title %>
  <%= form.text_field :title %>

  <%= form.label :publish_at %>
  <%= form.datetime_select :publish_at %>
  <!-- Which does something like:
    <select name="post_form[publish_at(i1)]"><option>2015</option>...</select>
    <select name="post_form[publish_at(i2)]"><option value="1">January</option>...<option value="12">December</option></select>
    <select name="post_form[publish_at(i3)]"><option>1</option>...</select>
    <select name="post_form[publish_at(i4)]"><option>1</option>...<option>24</option></select>
    <select name="post_form[publish_at(i5)]"><option>1</option>...<option>60</option></select>
    <select name="post_form[publish_at(i6)]"><option>1</option>...<option>60</option></select>
  -->

  <%= form.submit %>
<% end %>

# app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
class PostsController
  def new
    @post_form = PostForm.new
  end

  def create
    @post_form = PostForm.new(params[:post_form])
    # ...
  end
end

virtus-multiparams's Issues

TimeZone LOL

Hi,
yup right before you set time in the code, a comment says : # Also, lololol timezones.

And indeed !!... the params my user would send from Paris to the server in London would be interpreted as the time in London. And my user would get confused because he would say reservation at 10:00 and it'd come back to him at 9:00 although in the DB it would be recorded as 8:00 (which is UTC).

The solution is to set time with timezone: Time.zone.local(2015, 12, 25, 12, 0) so everyone can hear the bells jingle in sync :-).

Of course that means being in the context of Rails. But wasn't it at the first place ?
Cheers,
Charly