Comments on: Rails 2 and RSS parsing gives weird errors http://www.spacebabies.nl/2008/06/16/rails-2-and-rss-parsing-gives-weird-errors/ extraterrestrialicious web apps Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: joost http://www.spacebabies.nl/2008/06/16/rails-2-and-rss-parsing-gives-weird-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-71 joost Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:36:20 +0000 http://www.spacebabies.nl/?p=142#comment-71 I checked the class of the pubDate and it was a Time, so something is afoul; either in Rails or RSS::Parser. And since this is happening since Rails 2.x I think the former (I have not changed Ruby). Coercing to string does fix the issue though. I checked the class of the pubDate and it was a Time, so something is afoul; either in Rails or RSS::Parser. And since this is happening since Rails 2.x I think the former (I have not changed Ruby). Coercing to string does fix the issue though.

]]> By: Geoff Buesing http://www.spacebabies.nl/2008/06/16/rails-2-and-rss-parsing-gives-weird-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Geoff Buesing Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:22:55 +0000 http://www.spacebabies.nl/?p=142#comment-70 Hmmm... that error message looks like it's because of an invalid feed, not because of Rails' datetime column handling. Rails allows you to assign either a String or a Time to datetime column, so you shouldn't have to coerce via #to_s first. Hmmm… that error message looks like it’s because of an invalid feed, not because of Rails’ datetime column handling.

Rails allows you to assign either a String or a Time to datetime column, so you shouldn’t have to coerce via #to_s first.

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