Virtual attributes about validates_timeliness

[corylanou]

Does anyone have a work around for this yet? If not, I'll fork and try to fix it. We are having the same issue.

[corylanou]

Ok, this is a good work around btw:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessor :some_date
  columns_hash["some_date"] = ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column.new("some_date", nil, "datetime")
  validates_date :some_date
end

[corylanou]

I'm somewhat new to rails, but I'm thinking the fix for this bug would be to make this change in the file
/lib/validates_timeliness/orm/active_record.rb

def timeliness_attribute_timezone_aware?(attr_name)
  attr_name = attr_name.to_s
  columns_hash[attr_name] = ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column.new(attr_name, nil, "datetime") unless columns_hash[attr_name]
  create_time_zone_conversion_attribute?(attr_name, columns_hash[attr_name])
end

[adzap]

Using the validators to get the type, and being more correct using the column class as @corylanou did

def timeliness_attribute_timezone_aware?(attr_name)
  attr_name = attr_name.to_s
  column = columns_hash[attr_name] || 
     ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column.new(attr_name, nil, _validators[attr_name.to_sym].find {|v| v.kind == :timeliness }.type)
  create_time_zone_conversion_attribute?(attr_name, column)
end

Again untested should work in all 3.x versions of the plugin

[adzap]

I've pushed commit for this. Please test it out and see if it works, then I'll release a new version.