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Add a t.date "due_on" column and a model method that shifts the date by calendar months, then emit the app with roundhouse --target spinel. Previously the Spinel target rejected the date column before emission.

Change

  • Add a bounded, program-defined Date runtime for Spinel with ISO date parsing, calendar fields, comparisons, month shifts, and the supported strftime subset.
  • Add Spinel SQL date parse/format seams and date-aware ActiveRecord JSON serialization.
  • Enable date-only values for Spinel while retaining the unsupported-target boundary for other backends, and document the runtime's differences from Ruby stdlib Date.

Regression and verification

  • cargo test --locked — passed after rebasing on current main.
  • SPINEL=/path/to/spinel cargo test --locked --test date_columns_spinel spinel_gate_date_column_crud_and_month_shifts_run -- --ignored --nocapture — passed; this emits and runs the Spinel binary against date-column CRUD, NULL, JSON, parsing, and calendar behavior.
  • The separate fresh scaffold spin build and HTTP show-route check could not be completed: the generated app currently fails in existing runtime/param_builder.rb Spinel C compilation (incompatible sp_String* / sp_RbVal types at lines 162 and 164), before the route can be exercised. The generated fixture also reports an unresolved ActionController::JsonRender. The focused emitted-binary test above does pass.

Please run the advisory Spinel CI lane with ci:full when reviewing.

Refs #303

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  • New Features
    • Spinel now supports Date values, including validated ISO date parsing, formatting, comparison, and month shifting.
    • Date columns are supported in Spinel database persistence and JSON serialization.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on Spinel’s supported date format and date-related limitations.

Enable date-only schema columns in the Spinel target with a program-defined Date, ISO SQL date seams, and JSON serialization. Add native emit-and-run coverage and preserve the date boundary on other targets.

Refs rubys#303

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Spinel gains a bounded Date runtime and support for Date columns. Generated models expose Date-column metadata, and Active Record formats selected Date columns for database and JSON conversion.

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Spinel Date Support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add the bounded Date runtime
runtime/spinel/date.rb, runtime/spinel/date.rbs, runtime/spinel/active_support_time_parsing.rb, runtime/spinel/active_support_time_parsing.rbs, runtime/spinel/scaffold/boot.rb, src/project.rs, docs/pipeline/runtime.md
Spinel adds a bounded Date implementation and database-date helpers. The boot chain loads the runtime and its signature. The documentation describes supported formats and limitations.
Enable Date columns in generated models
src/lower/model_to_library/schema.rs, runtime/ruby/active_record/base.rb, runtime/ruby/active_record/base.rbs, src/project.rs, tests/date_columns.rs, tests/cli_allow_unsupported_hint.rs, tests/model_lowerer.rs
Generated models expose schema_date_columns, and Spinel accepts Date-only values. Tests check the generated method and successful Spinel transpilation.
Convert Date columns for database and JSON
runtime/ruby/active_record/connection.rb, runtime/spinel/active_record_date_serialization.rb, runtime/spinel/scaffold/boot.rb, tests/date_columns_spinel.rs, scripts/ci-plan.py, tests/inference_on_spinel_blog_runtime_with_rbs.rs, tests/runtime_src_integration.rs
Active Record formats selected Date columns for JSON output. Spinel loads the date-aware serializer. Integration checks cover Date-column behavior and its associated test coverage.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ActiveRecordBase
  participant AsJsonOnly
  participant FormatDbDate
  participant Date
  ActiveRecordBase->>AsJsonOnly: pass selected schema columns
  AsJsonOnly->>FormatDbDate: format selected Date column
  FormatDbDate->>Date: parse String with Date.iso8601 or format Date with iso8601
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Suggested reviewers: rubys, thomasklemm

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f74d3

Blank date updates can fail, and targeted CI may miss a Date JSON regression. Both are bounded issues with straightforward fixes; merging warrants owner awareness or follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f74d3

Date inputs are strictly validated, and the inspected changes do not demonstrate a new privilege or isolation bypass. The main remaining uncertainty is how the new behavior integrates with HTTP routes and failure recovery.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The shared Base serializer applies to generated Spinel models, including models without Date columns. Its default selection can therefore affect every schema field exposed by an application using that entrypoint. Actual sensitive-field or tenant exposure depends on application models and routes not established by the supplied evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Date.strftime scans the supplied pattern without an explicit length limit. This establishes input-sized formatting work, not a verified denial-of-service path: the inspected evidence does not establish a network caller forwarding attacker-selected patterns.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new Date formatting seam rejects invalid ISO strings and unsupported value types. JSON selection is constrained to schema columns, but the default includes all of them; this selection mechanism is not a sensitive-field authorization policy.
  • observed — Generated updates retain a record-key predicate and write raw storage through the existing adapter. The inspected base-to-head comparison changes Date support and metadata, not these adapter identity or database-execution mechanisms.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A direct temporal writer normalizes before assigning its raw slot, and the save lifecycle marks a new record persisted only after adapter insertion returns. Construction and multi-field updates retain pre-existing mutation-before-completion ordering; the inspected source does not provide rollback of earlier in-memory assignments when later work fails.
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125-126: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Select the Date serialization suite for this file.

A change to active_record_date_serialization.rb falls back to framework_tests_spinel. CI runs only the suites listed in the plan, so date_columns_spinel—which asserts the default entry.as_json Date output—does not run for this change. Add the focused suite and retain the existing framework suite.

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-        if name in {"date.rb", "date.rbs"}:
+        if name in {"date.rb", "date.rbs", "active_record_date_serialization.rb"}:
             owned_tests.add("date_columns_spinel")
+        if name == "active_record_date_serialization.rb":
+            owned_tests.add("framework_tests_spinel")
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Update the file-to-suite selection in the `name` checks that populate
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Review comments at @runtime/spinel/active_support_time_parsing.rb:
- Line 33: Update format_db_date to return nil for an empty string before
calling Date.iso8601, while preserving the existing handling of nil, Date
values, and nonblank strings.

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- Around line 125-126: Update the file-to-suite selection in the `name` checks
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select `date_columns_spinel` while retaining the existing
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  • docs/pipeline/runtime.md
  • runtime/ruby/active_record/base.rb
  • runtime/ruby/active_record/base.rbs
  • runtime/ruby/active_record/connection.rb
  • runtime/spinel/active_record_date_serialization.rb
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  • runtime/spinel/date.rbs
  • runtime/spinel/scaffold/boot.rb
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  • src/lower/model_to_library/schema.rs
  • src/project.rs
  • tests/cli_allow_unsupported_hint.rs
  • tests/date_columns.rs
  • tests/date_columns_spinel.rs
  • tests/inference_on_spinel_blog_runtime_with_rbs.rs
  • tests/model_lowerer.rs
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def self.format_db_date(value)
return nil if value.nil?
return value.iso8601 if value.is_a?(Date)
return Date.iso8601(value).iso8601 if value.is_a?(String)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Normalize blank date strings before parsing.

The Hash-based update/update! path sends a present date value through format_db_date. For update!(due_on: ""), Spinel’s Date.iso8601 rejects the empty string and raises Date::Error instead of clearing the nullable date. parse_db_date already maps the empty date representation to nil.

Suggested fix
   def self.format_db_date(value)
     return nil if value.nil?
+    return nil if value.is_a?(String) && value == ""
     return value.iso8601 if value.is_a?(Date)
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Update format_db_date to return nil for an empty string before calling
Date.iso8601, while preserving the existing handling of nil, Date values, and
nonblank strings.

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Thanks for this. CI on the full run has two independent failures, both caused by this PR:

1. Campfire on Spinel: every page 500s (smoke-campfire, campfire-compare-spinel ×3)

500 GET /session/new -- NoMethodError: undefined method 'strftime' for an instance of Time

boot.rb now loads the program-defined Date into every Spinel app. Wherever a receiver is poly over Time | Date, Spinel's dispatch only carries the user Date#strftime arm, so a Time raises. Monomorphic Time receivers still work. That's a Spinel defect, filed with a minimal repro as matz/spinel#7334. Until it's fixed (or Date is only loaded when the schema has a date column), this can't merge without breaking Campfire.

2. framework-tests-spinel: date_columns_spinel can't find its fixture

panicked at src/fixtures.rs:32:5: fixtures/real-blog is absent

The PR adds the suite to SPINEL_TESTS, but the framework-tests-spinel job never fetches the fixture. It needs generate-fixture in its needs: plus the same download/extract steps other jobs use:

      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
        with:
          name: real-blog-fixture
      - name: Extract fixture
        run: tar -xzf real-blog.tar.gz

The other suites in that job passed.

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Date work continues on #454, which supersedes this PR. Please close this PR in favor of #454.

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