42 » Date.civil http://www.42.mach7x.com Thoughts and tips about programming with Ruby on Rails Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:38:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ArgumentError (3 elements of civil date are necessary) http://www.42.mach7x.com/2007/12/03/argumenterror-3-elements-of-civil-date-are-necessary/ http://www.42.mach7x.com/2007/12/03/argumenterror-3-elements-of-civil-date-are-necessary/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:25:57 +0000 kosmas http://www.42.mach7x.com/2007/12/03/argumenterror-3-elements-of-civil-date-are-necessary/ Problem
On creating a default date on a model using the after create, and by using Model.date_field = ’2007-01-01′ we get the error ArgumentError (3 elements of civil date are necessary)

Solution
The workaround is to use:

Model.date_field = Date.civil(2007,01,01)
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