this plugin breaks searchlogic datetime search w/date

[spovich]

SearchLogic uses a feature of ActiveRecord to do casting of dates. However, with this plugin, ActiveRecord no longer returns the result of the cast. This totally breaks SearchLogic searches on DateTime fields when you only provide a Date value.

If you have a rails app with this plugin, just do the following to see the problem:

# script/console
# c = ::ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column.new("", nil)
# c.instance_variable_set(:@type, :datetime)
# c.type_cast("Jan 1, 2009")

without validates_date_time plugin installed
=> Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2009

but with validates_date_time plugin installed
=> nil

I am trying to fix this, but wanted to raise the issue in case someone else already knows of this and a fix.

[spovich]

Well, after going through the code more, and seeing that parser is overriding active record column, I don't like the code smell. Shouldn't do that. More searching, and I found validates_timeliness which keeps it's parser out of active record and uses its own namespace, and (most importantly) doesn't fail w/searchlogic.