- Only validate :date_of_birth and :postal_code presence when the application
has configured Custom Census and their alias fields has values.
- Only validate :year_of_birth presence when :date_of_birth is not configured
to send to Custom Census
Date.new(...) does not take into account the current timezone, while other
parts of the application do. By default always parsing any date with the
default timezone and converting the resulting Time to Date would prevent
this kind of issues
DateTime.parse(...).in_time_zone gives an unexpected result, as the
DateTime.parse(...) will create a DateTime with +0000 time zone and the
`in_time_zone` will modify the DateTime to adjust to the default zone.
Maybe its better explained with an example, using 'Lima' as timezone:
DateTime.parse("2015-01-01")
> Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000
DateTime.parse("2015-01-01").in_time_zone
> Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:00:00 -05 -05:00
And that's not the desired date but the previous day!
Here's a better alternative than the first one. Added a new abstraction level from which are performed both types of census calls, while the logic of those is managed in their own library.
