Rails supports time zones, but there are several pitfalls. Most importantly because Time.now and Time.current are completely different things and code from gems might use one or the other.

Especially configuring an application that cares only...

A check if two date or time ranges A and B overlap needs to cover a lot of cases:

1. A partially overlaps B
2. A surrounds B
3. B surrounds A
4. A occurs entirely after B
5. B occurs entirely after A

This means you actually have to check that:

...

I ran into a situation in which I received the yarn integrity check warning when starting the rails console even though everything was up to date and correct versions in use.

TLDR: run spring stop

I tried starting the rails console without...

Rails 2

You can use

record.send(:update_without_callbacks)

or

record.send(:create_without_callbacks)

This can be used as a lightweight alternative to machinist's make or FactoryGirl's create, when you just need objects...

You might have some trouble running a Rails LTS 2 app with MySQL 5.7.

If you don't want to hack Mysql 5.6 into your modern Ubuntu or [use the My...

If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console, you are missing the readline package. You will need to re-install your Ruby to fix this:

rvm remove ree
rvm package install readline
rvm in...

Understanding your type of cronjob

Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch operations on the database, it should probably run on a single server. Running it on multip...

If you have an integer and want to use it to represent an element's position (like "1st" for 1, or "2nd" for 2), you can use ActiveSupport's ordinalize:

1.ordinalize     # => "1...

1. Saving files to a directory that is not shared between deploys or servers

If you save your uploads to a made up directory like "RAILS_ROOT/uploads", this directory goes away after every deploy (since every release gets a new). Also this di...

Code snippet tested with Rails 2.3

  def index
    # ...
    if request.xhr?
      html = render_to_string(:partial => "list", :layout => false)
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { render :text => html }
        format.json {...