In place editing of Time object

Question

I have an app, which is used to plan work shifts for a number of employees. I have a Shift model, where I store the shiftstart and the shiftend as Time objects.

I present the users Shifts on a page displaying several days in a table. The idea is that the user the can edit the shiftstart and shiftend directly in this table using the Best In Place gem.

But I can't seem to figure out how to get this working when dealing with a Time object - anyone got some experience or suggestions on this.

I have the following code:

VIEW:

<% @myShifts.where(:shiftdate => date).order(:shiftstart).each do |shift| %>
  <div class="shift-item span">
    <div class="hider">
      <p>
        <i class="icon gear"></i>
          <%= best_in_place shift.shiftstart.strftime("%H.%M"), :type => :input %> - <%= best_in_place shift.shiftend.strftime("%H.%M"), :type => :input %>
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
<% end %>

SCHEMA:

create_table "shifts", :force => true do |t|
  t.time     "shiftstart"
  t.time     "shiftend"
  t.integer  "type_id"
  t.integer  "user_id"
  t.string   "note"
  t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
  t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
  t.date     "shiftdate"
end

I'm getting a "undefined method `{:type=>:input}' for "08.00":String" error and I already tried switching the Best In Place Type to something other the input - doesn't help..

Answer 1

best_in_place method takes two mandatory arguments; an object (shift in you case) and a field (shiftstart and shiftend), then optional hash of options (:type => :input). So your code needs to be like this:

<%= best_in_place shift, :shiftstart, :type => :input, :display_with => Proc.new { |f| f.strftime("%H.%M") } %>