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Time Zones​

(Sourced from Thoughtbot)

Do not use the following:

* Time.now
* Date.today
* Date.today.to_time
* Time.parse("2015-07-04 17:05:37")
* Time.strptime(string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")

Use the following instead:

* Time.current
* 2.hours.ago
* Time.zone.today
* Date.current
* 1.day.from_now
* Time.zone.parse("2015-07-04 17:05:37")
* Time.strptime(string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z").in_time_zone

Installing pq gem on Mac OS X​

The Postgres gem requires the postgresql Homebrew package to be installed; the command pg_config is requried to compile the pg gem.

# Install dependencies
brew install postgresql@14

# Run one of the following depending on how you are installing the gem
bundle # The preferred way
gem install pq

Interesting Projects and Frameworks​

  • Hanami
    • This showed up on Hacker News. Interesting framework. Lighter than Ruby on Rails, but seems to have a solid amount of features. A middle ground between Sinatra and Rails, maybe?
    • Has a dedicated Hanami Guides site.