Rails 3 - Calendar Date Select Gem - Disable Field Input - ruby-on-rails-3

Using gem 'calendar_date_select', :git => 'git://github.com/paneq/calendar_date_select.git' in my Gemfile.
Is there an option for disabling the user from keying in the date, forcing them to use the popup calendar? For some reason, if they key in the date by hand, the wrong date is stored.
Here it is on my form:
<%= f.calendar_date_select "invoice_date", :index => '1', :time => false, :size => 12 %>
Thanks in advance!

Never mind, as soon as I submitted the question, I figured it out:
:popup => "force"

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Rails 3 Date format in forms

My question is similar to this SO problem, but it does not answer my question:
Rails 3 default datetime format without UTC
I understand that I can add
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%Y/%m/%d"
to my environment.rb and it will change my default time format accordingly.
So when I do Time.now.to_s I get the correct format.
However, my question is, how come this does not work with a form_builder. For example:
<%= f.text_field :date %>
will return a full UTC timestamp: 2013-01-25 07:45:21
I am aware that I can do this
<%= f.text_field :date, :value => #post.date.to_s %>
And it will give me the correct format.
But this solution seems hacky to me. Is this really the only way to do it?
I am not 100% sure. But the answer is most likely no. The rails formhelper just gives you whatever value that is in your database.
Here is where the value is retrieved for your reference:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/InstanceTag.html#method-i-to_input_field_tag
There is no special processing of it, such as localize or to_s, which is where formatting is applied.
If the date looks like a timestamp (2013-01-25 07:45:21 UTC),
You could do something like the following to views you localize timestamps with:
<%= localize(#post.date, :format => :long) %>
According to your problem, you could try using date_select rather than text_field.
<%= f.date_select :date, :order => [:day, :month, :year] %>

Rails 3 Routing: Using 2 dynamic segments in path for one model

What I am trying to achieve is something similar to Github's way for routes. E.g. I have a project with the name 'question' results in the URL /hjuskewycz/question. So my goal is to have routes where the first segment is the username and the second the project's name.
I tried a couple of different approaches, this is the one I am stuck with right now:
scope ":username" do
resources :projects, :path => "" do
resources :pictures
end
end
Using
project_path :username => project.owner.username, :id => project.to_param
works as expected. However, it's tedious to always specify the username although it's always the owner's username. I would very much prefer
project_path(:id => project.to_param)
I know about default_url_options and url_for and I digged in the code. However, polymorphic_url doesn't use default_url_options.
I tried in routes.rb:
resources :projects, :path => "", :defaults => {:username => Proc.new { "just_testing" }}
since you can use a proc for constrains, but haven't got it working either.
I tried in project.rb
def to_param
"#{owner.username"/#{project.title}"
end
I spent already too much time on this problem and my current approach uses a convenience method to add the :username parameter. Nevertheless, I think using this method all over the place just to add an entry stinks (bad code smell). I wonder if there is a more elegant solution to this problem.
I think you should not make things complicated here, just use something like this:
In Routes.rb
match ':username/:projectname/' => 'projects#show_project' , :as => :show_project
and in project_controller, just define this
def show_project
#user =User.find_by_username(params[:username])
#project =Project.find_by_slug(params[:projectname])
end
Simpler is better, it saves time and easy to understand for others
You want to do something like this in your controller:
before_filter :set_username
def set_username
Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:username] = #user.name
end

No route matches {:controller=>"results", :action=>"show"}

Im upgrading a rails 2 app to rails 3 app and am having a bunch of routing issues. Heres the current:
So in the page its trying to load (results/_form.html.erb) I have a form with the following syntax:
<%= form_tag(:controller => "results",:action => "show") do %>
And i do have an action in my results_controller.rb called show. Yet i keep getting the no route matches error. Is this rails 2 syntax and not 3? Is there something I need to do in my routes.rb file? I think there is because that was a a major change between rails 2 and 3, im just not sure what. Any suggestions?
show action ideally should expect id to be passed in the params:
<%= form_tag(:controller => "results",:action => "show", :id => #user.id) do %>

Rails 3: client_side_validations gem and devise password validations

I've got the client_side_validations gem working really great on my forms. I'm using Devise for my users model and when I go to the edit_user_registration form, validations are thrown up for everything except the :current_password, :password, and :password_confirmation fields.
Fort instance is I leave the email blank, the validation pops up right when I tab out of the field. However, if I leave the current_password field blank and tab out of it nothing happen, then when I submit the form I get the error "1 error prohibited this user from being saved: password can't be blank"
Thanks for any help
http://pastie.org/1907464
Currently ClientSideValidations will filter out any conditional validators. Devise sets some of the validators as conditional: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devise/models/validatable.rb#L24-32
The reason I did this is because there is no good way for the client to determine the true value of that conditional. I could do it at the time the form is generated but what if that conditional relied upon a value that could be changed on the form? So I opted to filter them and let things fall back to the server.
That was the idea but clearly it has imposed unfair limitations on some things. This being the most obvious (and popular).
So I plan on releasing a new version very soon that will allow you to explicitly override the conditional filters. It will work like this:
<%= f.text_field :password, :validate => { :presence => true, :confirmation => true } %>
or
<%= f.text_field :password, :validate => true %>
In the first case you can choose which validators to turn the filter off. In the 2nd case it will turn the filter off for all validators on that attribute. The conditional will be evaluated at the time the form is generated and if it passes it will add the validator to the input element for use on the client.
The master branch now supports this format. Point your Gemfile to it and you should be good
It’s simple! The gem extends the Rails default form builder, and all you have to do is set a :validate => true option on any form_for (or simple_form_for for simple form users) tag that you want the inline validations for. The form builder uses some rails reflections on your model validations to generate some json that gets included in a script tag after your form. The json is then used by the gem’s Javascript framework to perform the validations that need to be performed.
<%= form_for(#user, :url => registration_path(resource_name), :validate => true) do |f| %>

Rails 3 Routes: Named routes. "No route matches"

So I'm getting a 'No route matches' error, and being new to Rails 3 (and Rails in general), I really don't know what the problem is. Here are the pertinent routes:
resources :users
#...
match 'reset_password(/:reset_password_code)' => 'users#reset_password', :as => :reset_password, :via => :get
match 'reset_password' => 'users#reset_password_submit', :as => :reset_password, :via => :post
The GET method works fine. I get a routing error when the form POSTs that's generated on the get page, which starts like this.
<%= form_for #user, :url => reset_password_url do |f| %>
It looks like it's posting to the right spot, as the url is generated using 'reset_password_url', it's posting to it, and the url looks as it should... anyone have any ideas?
UPDATE
I'm using Rails 3.0.4
I've tried taking out every other route except for the ones that I've mentioned here, and I still can't figure out why it's not working.
Figured it out!
In my form, rails was (correctly) assuming that since I had a user that I was using with the form_for helper, that I wanted to update the user, not make a new one.
Therefore, it was using the PUT method to post my form. To solve the routing problem, I just had to change the last route to:
match 'reset_password' => 'users#reset_password_submit', :as => :reset_password, :via => :put
I only found the issue after using the Web Inspector in webkit to see the whole request, and looked at the _method parameter being sent in.