If you followed the instructions here and used the method named PDF::Writer (Austin Ziegler), you we’re out of luck when Rails 2.1 appeared. With Rails 2.2.2 once again the rendering mechanism seems to have changed big time and my previous post on how to make the pdf/writer gem work with a custom template handler doesn’t […]
Not just for ruby but also the corresponding formats for Java public static final SimpleDateFormat RFC3339_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssZ");public static final SimpleDateFormat RFC3339_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssZ"); and for Oracle SELECT to_timestamp_tz(’1979-21-09T06:54:00+01:00′,’YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SSTZH:TZM’) FROM dual /select to_timestamp_tz(‘1979-21-09T06:54:00+01:00′,’YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SSTZH:TZM’) from dual / Oracle
Times in RSS Feeds and the like are formatted as RFC3339 most of the time. You can save yourself from strftime by using Time.now.xmlschemaTime.now.xmlschema
I couldn’t find this in the documents, but Geoff Buesing showed me the hooks to turn off Ruby On Rails’ automatic timezone conversions for some columns of a model or a complete model: # Turn it off for just some columns class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base def self.skip_time_zone_conversion_for_attributes [:created_at, :published_at] end end # Turin it […]