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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Cleaning Up Our View

Keith Branch
Keith Branch
7,717 Points
Posted by Keith Branch
Keith Branch
7,717 Points

"completed_at" showing the wrong date and time

Running this code:

<table class="todo_items">
  <% @todo_list.todo_items.each do |todo_item| %>
    <tr id="<%= dom_id(todo_item) %>">
      <td><%= todo_item.completed_at %></td>
      <td><%= todo_item.content %></td>
      <td>
        <% if todo_item.completed_at.blank? %>
        <%= link_to "Mark Complete", complete_todo_list_todo_item_path(todo_item), method: :patch %>
        <% end %>
        <%= link_to "Edit", edit_todo_list_todo_item_path(todo_item) %>
        <%= link_to "Delete", todo_list_todo_item_path(todo_item), method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Are you sure?" } %>
      </td>
    </tr>
  <% end %>
</table>

on this spec:

context "with completed items" do
    let!(:completed_todo_item) { todo_list.todo_items.create(content: "Eggs", completed_at: 5.minutes.ago) }

    it "shows completed items as complete" do
      visit_todo_list todo_list
      within dom_id_for(completed_todo_item) do
        expect(page).to have_content(completed_todo_item.completed_at)
      end
    end

    it "does not give the option to mark complete" do
      visit_todo_list todo_list
      within dom_id_for(completed_todo_item) do
        expect(page).to_not have_content("Mark Complete")
      end
    end
  end

And I'm getting this error:

1) Editing todo items with completed items shows completed items as complete
     Failure/Error: expect(page).to have_content(completed_todo_item.completed_at)
       expected to find text "2016-05-17 02:40:07 UTC" in "2000-01-01 02:40:07 UTC Eggs Edit Delete"
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/complete_spec.rb:23:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/complete_spec.rb:22:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Keith,

Did you get round this issue?

The 'defaulting to the year 2000' thing is often caused with date and time columns. Often when a Time gets changed to a DateTime.

There's some comment on the issue in this and this post. It'll often show as being correct in the database, but when you pull the data into the view, the date will appear incorrectly.

Steve.

Montalvo Miguelo
Montalvo Miguelo
24,789 Points
Montalvo Miguelo
Montalvo Miguelo
24,789 Points

Look at your migration... correct type :datetime

class AddCompleteAtToTodoItems < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :todo_items, :completed_at, :datetime
  end
end