Fetch a Rails ActiveRecord 'datetime' attribute as a DateTime object?

You can always create a method to override the attribute, as follows: class YourModel .... def ended_on self'ended_on'. To_datetime # if you need date object use to_date instead end .... end Hopefully that helps.

Thanks, this seems to do the job. The code I actually used was self'ended_on' && self'ended_on'. To_datetime so it won't have any trouble with nil values.

I'm still a little worried about 2040, but I guess there will be many new versions of Rails to upgrade to before then anyway. – Tobias Cohen May 18 '10 at 1:06.

You can convert the Time Object very easy with Time::to_date or Time::to_datetime. For more information on this: api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSuppor... so you should change your code like this: myevent. Ended_on.

To_date # or myevent. Ended_on. To_datetime.

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