Is there a way to reset the attributes?

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Is there a way to reset the attributes?

Closed this issue 11 years ago · 4 comments

It looks like there is no way to reset the attribute. For example:

task.due_at_date = '2001-02-03'
task.due_at_time = '10:00pm'
task.due_at                      # => 2001-02-03 22:00:00 +0700

Now I want to set due_at to nil, but setting due_at_date and due_at_time to nil doesn't work.

I tried to work around that by manually setting due_at to nil before every assignment, but when setting due_at_date to nil, the original date is restored!

task.due_at_date = '2001-02-03'
task.due_at_time = '10:00pm'
task.due_at                      # => 2001-02-03 22:00:00 +0700
task.due_at = nil
task.due_at                      # => nil
task.due_at_date = nil
task.due_at                      # => 2001-02-03 22:00:00 +0700

Is there any official way to properly reset a datetime attribute?

Answer 1 · 2013-12-14T11:09:36.000Z

Hey Daniel, good catch. Will fix that.

Answer 2 · 2013-12-14T11:47:13.000Z

@daniel-rikowski As a quick workaround you can reset all attributes:

task.due_at_date = nil
task.due_at_time = nil
task.due_at = nil

general due_at field should be set to nil after due_at_date and due_at_time

Answer 3 · 2013-12-16T12:23:12.000Z

bundled 0.0.5

Answer 4 · 2013-12-16T18:05:09.000Z

Thank you very much, it works now, at least with plain Ruby attributes. Unfortunately Rails attributes don't work anymore, see #2.