Changes in the form are not saved to database

Question

I\'m trying to add a date field to my form.

I added bootstrap-datepicker-rails gem, all required css and javascript.

When I choose the date in the calendar a

Answer 1

Andrew Hacking's answer worked great for me, with two small changes to app/inputs/bootstrap_datepicker_input.rb. I'm using Rails 4.2.0. It was ignoring the value in the hidden field as a duplicate (since the text input and hidden input have identical "name" attributes). I switched:

"#{@builder.text_field(attribute_name, text_field_options.to_hash)}\n"

... to this:

"#{@builder.text_field(attribute_name.to_s+'_box',text_field_options.to_hash)}\n" +

Also, I was losing wrapper options, so I added an argument to input and merged the wrapper options into the html options.

This:

def input
    text_field_options = input_html_options.with_indifferent_access
    ...

... became:

def input(wrapper_options)
    merged_input_options = merge_wrapper_options(input_html_options, wrapper_options)
    text_field_options = merged_input_options.with_indifferent_access
    ...