Rails 3 jquery date picker date not saving to database

Question

When I submit my form I can see the date being sent to in the post. However, It doesn\'t save the date. If I do a date check it says it is not in the proper format. Here

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue. One solution is to simply change the format that the datepicker uses:

// in your javascript...
$j(function(){
  $j("#mile_date").datepicker({
    dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd"
  });
});

Rails seems to be able to handle the yy-mm-dd format - I'm using that and am having no issues saving the date to the database. The only issue here is that some might find the yy-mm-dd format a little less good looking than mm/dd/yyyy...