Thank you for your comment and suggestions. I will look into adding the date format into the v_t formats and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the great write up!

I’m the plugin author and I just wanted to comment on a couple of things.

The ‘Date.today’ should be wrapped in a lambda like so ‘lambda { Date.today }’ so that it gets evaluated every time the validations run. Otherwise you end up using a static date value which we be the same date for as long the application process is running.

This is a little ugly but it will be smoother in the Rails 3 version I’m developing which will allow a symbol shorthand for common relative time and date values. So your example would become :on_or_after => :today. These are configurable as you would expect :)

I had a quick look at the calendar_date_select and saw what default format it uses. Translated into the v_t format it should be a date of ‘mmm d, yyyy’ and time ‘hh:nn ampm’. You could try adding the data and combined as a datatime format to the v_t formats and see how you go. The time format is already supported in v_t. If it works I can add that date format as a default in the plugin.

Adam