You may be interested in the _before_type_cast accessor - that will let you read whatever the DB is actually returning.
I'm somewhat curious what makes sense for a dateless, zoneless time. Either the app that consumes the data is *assuming* the missing info (hard to do, as even time comparisons get nasty across DST boundaries) or the data is (maybe?) some kind of elapsed time. --Matt Jones On Jul 13, 3:21 pm, Josh <joshbwh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the points and it is useful to think about the rails > time not having time_of_day. I still am not sure my problem was clear. > It seems to me that there should at least be a :emulate_datetime => > false sort of option like with booleans, ex. > > ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter.emulate_booleans = > false > > The table simply holds 21:25:42, but activerecord retrieves the > information in the AR Hash as > > time => "2000-01-01 21:25:42" > > Where then does date, 2000-01-01 come from? It looks to me like rails > is just guessing, Shouldn't thee be a way for it to retreive time as > a string, time=> "2001-01-01" ? > > I think the last suggestion from Alpha Blue will have to be my current > solution, don't use the mysql time object and instead use a string. > > On Jul 12, 6:48 am, "Älphä Blüë" <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > wrote: > > > > > You said that you have atimeobject but that it holds a "string". If > > you are updating your mysql db with a string format oftimeand you > > specify the column as a string you can return it as a string and format > > it anyway you want using gsub. > > > In either case, you can convert anything returned from mysql using gsub. > > > The first question you should ask yourself is what type of column do I > > have in my mysql db? > > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
