<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>string_to_date (ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../.././rdoc-style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body class="standalone-code"> <pre><span class="ruby-comment cmt"># File lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb, line 125</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">def</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">string_to_date</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">string</span>) <span class="ruby-keyword kw">return</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">string</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">unless</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">string</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">is_a?</span>(<span class="ruby-constant">String</span>) <span class="ruby-keyword kw">return</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">nil</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">if</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">string</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">empty?</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">fast_string_to_date</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">string</span>) <span class="ruby-operator">||</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">fallback_string_to_date</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">string</span>) <span class="ruby-keyword kw">end</span></pre> </body> </html>