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

I´ve used the anwser from Andrew. It worked well for me, except that it not displayed the localized month names correct (For example July instead of Juli).

Here is my approach, if you want to use a localized version for your date_picker.

By default the bootsrap-datepicker gem loads all language versions.

If you want for example to load only the english and german version you have to change application.js

from

//= require bootstrap-datepicker

to

//= require bootstrap-datepicker/core
//= require bootstrap-datepicker/locales/bootstrap-datepicker.en-GB.js
//= require bootstrap-datepicker/locales/bootstrap-datepicker.de.js

Nest step is to change BootstrapDatepickerInput

What we want now is that the language is dynamically choosen from a given parameter.

so add the following line to you Input class inside of the input method

set_data_option text_field_options, 'date-language', input_html_options[:locale]

In our view we can call now the form with

= f.input :your_attribute_name, as: :bootstrap_datepicker, input_html: { locale: locale }