Form Helpers — Ruby on Rails Guides

Form Helpers — Ruby on Rails Guides: "The above inputs would result in params[:start_date] being a hash with keys :year, :month, :day. To get an actual Time or Date object you would have to extract these values and pass them to the appropriate constructor, for example

Date.civil(params[:start_date][:year].to_i, params[:start_date][:month].to_i, params[:start_date][:day].to_i)
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