Error with date_select when a default_locale is set

I investigated a little more and there is at least one problem with ActionView::Helpers::DateTimeSelector#translated_date_order. The current code is

    def translated_date_order
      begin
        I18n.translate(:'date.order', :locale => @options[:locale]) || []
      end
    end

However, I18n.translate never returns nil/false. If it did not find anything, it will return a "translation missing: xxxx" string. And later calling .include(:symbol) on it will throw an exception. At first I thought about adding :default => [] in the translate()'s options, but the only defaults that can be used are strings (if you give an Array, it looks for the strings in it). To return an empty array if nothing was found you would have to do something like this:

    def translated_date_order
      begin
        order = I18n.translate(:'date.order', :locale => @options[:locale])
        if order.respond_to?(:to_ary)
          order
        else
          []
        end
      end
    end

I tried it and date_select displayed "Some date". A nice error would be better but it's still better than a strange "can't convert Symbol into String" exception.

Yep, I am having the same problem. I have the default set to "en-US", and I get the same Can't convert Symbol to String error.

I used your code, but i changed the empty array to a default date order.

module ActionView module Helpers

class DateTimeSelector
  def translated_date_order
    begin
      order = I18n.translate(:'date.order', :locale => @options[:locale])
      if order.respond_to?(:to_ary)
        order
      else
        [:year, :month, :day]
      end
    end
  end
end

end end

Same problem using default_locale= 'en-US'

I have the same problema.

While the problem is solved what you can do is explicit your :order every time you call date_select. This will avoid the error.

I had the same problem but found that since this is the datetime selector you need to add :time in your default order. this might be obvious to other but i am a bit dense so it is good to make not of this for other who are like me. :)

@@@RUBY class DateTimeSelector def translated_date_order

begin
  order = I18n.translate(:'date.order', :locale => @options[:locale])
  if order.respond_to?(:to_ary)
    order
  else
    [:year, :month, :day, :time]
  end
end

end end

I found a better solution. You need to define your localization for time formats. You can get some pre-made localization files for many languages at: http://github.com/svenfuchs/rail...

@bruno :'en-US' is not the default locale anymore, did you try :en?

I solved it by adding a en-US.yml with the formats on this page: http://i18n-demo.phusion.nl/page.... Would be nice if the helpers would be fixed to use rails defaults if no specifics are found.

DavidBackeus, could you submit a patch for this? Thanks!

oh, this is about 2 years old bug, I just got it.

Same problem in rails 3.0.1 ruby 1.9.2

+1