Rails 3.1 text_field form helper and jQuery datepicker date format

Question

I have a form field in my Rails view like this:

<%= f.text_field :date, :class => \"datepicker\" %>

A javascript function converts

Answer 1

JQuery datepicker won't format the pre-populated date.
You would need to handle it on the rails side by using the formatted date with the textfield, instead of the raw date which has the default 'yyyy-mm-dd' format.

Example -

<%= f.text_field :date, :class => "datepicker", :value => @model.date.strftime("%d %m %Y") %>

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