DateTime + x.days, x.minutes and the like?

This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking I can do the following:

DateTime.now + 1.day

… and getting the expected result, which would not be (but is):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :055 > DateTime.now + 1.day => #<DateTime 2247-11-04T13:24:19-05:00>

Or

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :056 > DateTime.now + 120.minutes => #<DateTime 2030-12-31T13:25:01-05:00>

(btw, the date on my computer is correct =~ => #<DateTime 2011-04-15T13:25:17-05:00>)

Is there any easy way to do this?

I also see people saying to use Time instead of DateTime, and that it is possible to do:

Time.now + 10.days

and get the expected output but in my case I get:

Time.now + 10.days NoMethodError: undefined method `advance’ for #<Date 2011-04-15>

ActiveSupport is loaded though…

I prefer to use .since and .ago:

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking I

can do the following:

DateTime.now + 1.day

Is there any easy way to do this?

I prefer to use .since and .ago:

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

Hmmm, I like the idea but getting an error - I am in rails console (Ruby 1.8.7)… but in Ruby 1.9.2 the method is present. Any idea how to aproach this problem in 1.8.7?

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :020 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-15T13:52:34-05:00>

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:55:22 -0500

This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking I

can do the following:

DateTime.now + 1.day

Is there any easy way to do this?

I prefer to use .since and .ago:

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

Hmmm, I like the idea but getting an error - I am in rails console (Ruby 1.8.7)… but in Ruby 1.9.2 the method is present. Any idea how to aproach this problem in 1.8.7?

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :020 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-15T13:52:34-05:00>

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:55:22 -0500

Which version of ActiveSupport are you running? I have ruby 1.8.7 installed and ActiveSupport 2.3.11. I was able to run your first examples and get the correct output as well as run Micheal’s examples and get the correct output.

DateTime.now => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:00:29 -0500 DateTime.now + 1.day => Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:32 -0500 DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:34 -0500

B.

This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking I

can do the following:

DateTime.now + 1.day

Is there any easy way to do this?

I prefer to use .since and .ago:

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

Hmmm, I like the idea but getting an error - I am in rails console (Ruby 1.8.7)… but in Ruby 1.9.2 the method is present. Any idea how to aproach this problem in 1.8.7?

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :020 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-15T13:52:34-05:00>

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:55:22 -0500

Which version of ActiveSupport are you running? I have ruby 1.8.7 installed and ActiveSupport 2.3.11. I was able to run your first examples and get the correct output as well as run Micheal’s examples and get the correct output.

Hey Brian, thanks… so I am on activesupport (= 3.0.6) (from my gemfile lock, which I assume is reliable)… on one side I am glad that perhaps something is wrong with my environment because I have resorted to doing things like: Time.now + 1.day.seconds to get certain outcomes (gave up on datetime).

So you are on Rails 2, right? I wonder if either is a difference bet R2 and R3 but I think Michael was using Ruby 1.9.2 and I assumed Rails 3. I guess I should probably drop my gemset and reinstall and see what happens…

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-16T04:32:20-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day => #<DateTime 2247-11-05T04:32:27-05:00>

This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking I

can do the following:

DateTime.now + 1.day

Is there any easy way to do this?

I prefer to use .since and .ago:

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

Hmmm, I like the idea but getting an error - I am in rails console (Ruby 1.8.7)… but in Ruby 1.9.2 the method is present. Any idea how to aproach this problem in 1.8.7?

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :020 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-15T13:52:34-05:00>

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:55:22 -0500

Which version of ActiveSupport are you running? I have ruby 1.8.7 installed and ActiveSupport 2.3.11. I was able to run your first examples and get the correct output as well as run Micheal’s examples and get the correct output.

Hey Brian, thanks… so I am on activesupport (= 3.0.6) (from my gemfile lock, which I assume is reliable)… on one side I am glad that perhaps something is wrong with my environment because I have resorted to doing things like: Time.now + 1.day.seconds to get certain outcomes (gave up on datetime).

So you are on Rails 2, right? I wonder if either is a difference bet R2 and R3 but I think Michael was using Ruby 1.9.2 and I assumed Rails 3. I guess I should probably drop my gemset and reinstall and see what happens…

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-16T04:32:20-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day => #<DateTime 2247-11-05T04:32:27-05:00>

DateTime.now => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:00:29 -0500 DateTime.now + 1.day => Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:32 -0500

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

=> Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:34 -0500

Am still perplexed by this output (ruby 1.8.7-p330 on 64bit/Snow Leopard):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-18T10:35:18-05:00>

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day => #<DateTime 2247-11-07T10:35:21-05:00>

I was thinking that maybe it was due to upgrading to Snow Leopard but I reinstalled ruby and my gemset and not success, could that be a plausible explanation and I am missing something? Anyone have any other idea? Really bothering me that I am getting one result and others on list getting different.

I wonder if it is the patch level that is the issue. I’m not using p330. This is my version:

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]

To the group: Is anyone else running p330 and having this issue?

B.

This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking I

can do the following:

DateTime.now + 1.day

Is there any easy way to do this?

I prefer to use .since and .ago:

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

Hmmm, I like the idea but getting an error - I am in rails console (Ruby 1.8.7)… but in Ruby 1.9.2 the method is present. Any idea how to aproach this problem in 1.8.7?

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :020 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-15T13:52:34-05:00>

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:55:22 -0500

Which version of ActiveSupport are you running? I have ruby 1.8.7 installed and ActiveSupport 2.3.11. I was able to run your first examples and get the correct output as well as run Micheal’s examples and get the correct output.

Hey Brian, thanks… so I am on activesupport (= 3.0.6) (from my gemfile lock, which I assume is reliable)… on one side I am glad that perhaps something is wrong with my environment because I have resorted to doing things like: Time.now + 1.day.seconds to get certain outcomes (gave up on datetime).

So you are on Rails 2, right? I wonder if either is a difference bet R2 and R3 but I think Michael was using Ruby 1.9.2 and I assumed Rails 3. I guess I should probably drop my gemset and reinstall and see what happens…

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-16T04:32:20-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day => #<DateTime 2247-11-05T04:32:27-05:00>

DateTime.now => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:00:29 -0500 DateTime.now + 1.day => Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:32 -0500

DateTime.now.since(1.day)

=> Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:34 -0500

Am still perplexed by this output (ruby 1.8.7-p330 on 64bit/Snow Leopard):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now

=> #<DateTime 2011-04-18T10:35:18-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day

=> #<DateTime 2247-11-07T10:35:21-05:00>

I was thinking that maybe it was due to upgrading to Snow Leopard but I reinstalled ruby and my gemset and not success, could that be a plausible explanation and I am missing something? Anyone have any other idea? Really bothering me that I am getting one result and others on list getting different.

I wonder if it is the patch level that is the issue. I’m not using p330. This is my version:

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]

To the group: Is anyone else running p330 and having this issue?

Not p330, but p334… doesn’t show the problem.

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :036 > DateTime.now

=> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:32:07 -0700

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :037 > DateTime.now + 1.day

=> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:32:18 -0700

ruby:

interpreter: “ruby”

version: “1.8.7”

date: “2011-02-18”

platform: “x86_64-darwin10.6.0”

patchlevel: “2011-02-18 patchlevel 334”

full_version: “ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [x86_64-darwin10.6.0]”

I wonder if it's something along the lines of the value of DateTime.now expressed as an integer added to 1.day expressed as an integer (86400 seconds maybe) converted back to a DateTime - giving a date wayyy in the future... :-/

What happens when you do:   DateTime.now + 1.second or   DateTime.now + 1.minute etc?

?:-/ 'fraid I can't help more than this wild speculation though, because I have no access to a Mac to test it on.

Am still perplexed by this output (ruby 1.8.7-p330 on 64bit/Snow Leopard):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now

=> #<DateTime 2011-04-18T10:35:18-05:00>

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day

=> #<DateTime 2247-11-07T10:35:21-05:00>

I wonder if it’s something along the lines of the value of

DateTime.now expressed as an integer added to 1.day expressed as an

integer (86400 seconds maybe) converted back to a DateTime - giving a

date wayyy in the future… :-/

What happens when you do:

DateTime.now + 1.second

or

DateTime.now + 1.minute

etc?

Yeah, I am pending to play around with this a bit later, as I am also recalling that ruby 1.9.2 is fine on my computer, so at least try another wipe of the 1.8.7. As well see if anything is weird on the config, since as to your question, it looks like you are on to something:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :005 > dt = DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-18T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :006 > dt + 1.second => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :007 > dt + 1.minute

=> #<DateTime 2011-06-17T13:23:45-05:00>

Because also if I do the following we are right on:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :008 > dt + 1 => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00>

Am still perplexed by this output (ruby 1.8.7-p330 on 64bit/Snow Leopard):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now

=> #<DateTime 2011-04-18T10:35:18-05:00>

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day

=> #<DateTime 2247-11-07T10:35:21-05:00>

I wonder if it’s something along the lines of the value of

DateTime.now expressed as an integer added to 1.day expressed as an

integer (86400 seconds maybe) converted back to a DateTime - giving a

date wayyy in the future… :-/

What happens when you do:

DateTime.now + 1.second

or

DateTime.now + 1.minute

etc?

Yeah, I am pending to play around with this a bit later, as I am also recalling that ruby 1.9.2 is fine on my computer, so at least try another wipe of the 1.8.7. As well see if anything is weird on the config, since as to your question, it looks like you are on to something:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :005 > dt = DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-18T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :006 > dt + 1.second => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :007 > dt + 1.minute

=> #<DateTime 2011-06-17T13:23:45-05:00>

Because also if I do the following we are right on:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :008 > dt + 1 => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00>

Hi all, so a little more data if it sparks any further input, I appreciate everyone’s input so far:

I installed fresh ruby 1.8.7-p334 and set up my app and end up with the same problem as above (DateTime.now + 1.day brings a result with the year 2247). It has to be something to do with my environment as Phillip Halstrom above has the same version of ruby and has a good result… I hate to rebuild my mac for such a lame issue but I am starting to think about it or to move this project to a vm.

What is weird is this: I am poking around active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb and see the methods such as #since, #advance, #past?, etc. available, yet I am getting an error doing what Michael Pavling suggested above, as well as ‘no method found’ on the other methods:

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-19T12:09:42-05:00

Then I decided to check the methods for DateTime.now, in my bad ruby 1.8.7-p334 / rails 3.0.7, vs my working ruby 1.9.2-p136 / rails 3.0.3. As you see on the gist below the list of methods are very different. I am wondering if there is a disconnect in how rails is loading in my 1.8.7 – because at initial glance, it looks to me like the DateTime class I am looking at in active_support is not being loaded as the methods it specifies are not there. Following are outputs of the methods for DateTime::now for my 1.8.7/Rails 3.0.7 and 1.9.2/Rails 3.0.3:

https://gist.github.com/928958

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

Thanks!

David

Am still perplexed by this output (ruby 1.8.7-p330 on 64bit/Snow Leopard):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now

=> #<DateTime 2011-04-18T10:35:18-05:00>

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day

=> #<DateTime 2247-11-07T10:35:21-05:00>

I wonder if it’s something along the lines of the value of

DateTime.now expressed as an integer added to 1.day expressed as an

integer (86400 seconds maybe) converted back to a DateTime - giving a

date wayyy in the future… :-/

What happens when you do:

DateTime.now + 1.second

or

DateTime.now + 1.minute

etc?

Yeah, I am pending to play around with this a bit later, as I am also recalling that ruby 1.9.2 is fine on my computer, so at least try another wipe of the 1.8.7. As well see if anything is weird on the config, since as to your question, it looks like you are on to something:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :005 > dt = DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-18T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :006 > dt + 1.second => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :007 > dt + 1.minute

=> #<DateTime 2011-06-17T13:23:45-05:00>

Because also if I do the following we are right on:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :008 > dt + 1 => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00>

Hi all, so a little more data if it sparks any further input, I appreciate everyone’s input so far:

I installed fresh ruby 1.8.7-p334 and set up my app and end up with the same problem as above (DateTime.now + 1.day brings a result with the year 2247). It has to be something to do with my environment as Phillip Halstrom above has the same version of ruby and has a good result… I hate to rebuild my mac for such a lame issue but I am starting to think about it or to move this project to a vm.

What is weird is this: I am poking around active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb and see the methods such as #since, #advance, #past?, etc. available, yet I am getting an error doing what Michael Pavling suggested above, as well as ‘no method found’ on the other methods:

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-19T12:09:42-05:00

Then I decided to check the methods for DateTime.now, in my bad ruby 1.8.7-p334 / rails 3.0.7, vs my working ruby 1.9.2-p136 / rails 3.0.3. As you see on the gist below the list of methods are very different. I am wondering if there is a disconnect in how rails is loading in my 1.8.7 – because at initial glance, it looks to me like the DateTime class I am looking at in active_support is not being loaded as the methods it specifies are not there. Following are outputs of the methods for DateTime::now for my 1.8.7/Rails 3.0.7 and 1.9.2/Rails 3.0.3:

https://gist.github.com/928958

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.8… http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/155

ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/156

ruby 1.8.7, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/157

-philip

Am still perplexed by this output (ruby 1.8.7-p330 on 64bit/Snow Leopard):

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > DateTime.now

=> #<DateTime 2011-04-18T10:35:18-05:00>

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > DateTime.now + 1.day

=> #<DateTime 2247-11-07T10:35:21-05:00>

I wonder if it’s something along the lines of the value of

DateTime.now expressed as an integer added to 1.day expressed as an

integer (86400 seconds maybe) converted back to a DateTime - giving a

date wayyy in the future… :-/

What happens when you do:

DateTime.now + 1.second

or

DateTime.now + 1.minute

etc?

Yeah, I am pending to play around with this a bit later, as I am also recalling that ruby 1.9.2 is fine on my computer, so at least try another wipe of the 1.8.7. As well see if anything is weird on the config, since as to your question, it looks like you are on to something:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :005 > dt = DateTime.now => #<DateTime 2011-04-18T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :006 > dt + 1.second => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :007 > dt + 1.minute

=> #<DateTime 2011-06-17T13:23:45-05:00>

Because also if I do the following we are right on:

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :008 > dt + 1 => #<DateTime 2011-04-19T13:23:45-05:00>

Hi all, so a little more data if it sparks any further input, I appreciate everyone’s input so far:

I installed fresh ruby 1.8.7-p334 and set up my app and end up with the same problem as above (DateTime.now + 1.day brings a result with the year 2247). It has to be something to do with my environment as Phillip Halstrom above has the same version of ruby and has a good result… I hate to rebuild my mac for such a lame issue but I am starting to think about it or to move this project to a vm.

What is weird is this: I am poking around active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb and see the methods such as #since, #advance, #past?, etc. available, yet I am getting an error doing what Michael Pavling suggested above, as well as ‘no method found’ on the other methods:

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) NoMethodError: undefined method `since’ for #<DateTime 2011-04-19T12:09:42-05:00

Then I decided to check the methods for DateTime.now, in my bad ruby 1.8.7-p334 / rails 3.0.7, vs my working ruby 1.9.2-p136 / rails 3.0.3. As you see on the gist below the list of methods are very different. I am wondering if there is a disconnect in how rails is loading in my 1.8.7 – because at initial glance, it looks to me like the DateTime class I am looking at in active_support is not being loaded as the methods it specifies are not there. Following are outputs of the methods for DateTime::now for my 1.8.7/Rails 3.0.7 and 1.9.2/Rails 3.0.3:

https://gist.github.com/928958

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.8… http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/155

ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/156

ruby 1.8.7, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/157

Thanks Phillip, well this one confirms my environment has something wrong and is pretty clearly not something wrong with either Rails or Ruby. Well for now I think I am just going to work the project under 1.9.2 and then move it back to 1.8.7 for the client/production, not ideal but nor is creating vm or rebuilding my laptop at the moment.

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.8… http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/155

ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/156

ruby 1.8.7, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/157

Thanks Phillip, well this one confirms my environment has something wrong and is pretty clearly not something wrong with either Rails or Ruby. Well for now I think I am just going to work the project under 1.9.2 and then move it back to 1.8.7 for the client/production, not ideal but nor is creating vm or rebuilding my laptop at the moment.

Or install RVM and ditch the system ruby entirely?? I’ll admit I don’t remember if you’ve already gone that direction or not…

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.8… http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/155

ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/156

ruby 1.8.7, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/157

Thanks Phillip, well this one confirms my environment has something wrong and is pretty clearly not something wrong with either Rails or Ruby. Well for now I think I am just going to work the project under 1.9.2 and then move it back to 1.8.7 for the client/production, not ideal but nor is creating vm or rebuilding my laptop at the moment.

Or install RVM and ditch the system ruby entirely?? I’ll admit I don’t remember if you’ve already gone that direction or not…

Yeah, thats what’s scary is that I have been using rvm the whole way through. Actually I just discovered that I have a dependency on an engine built in 1.8.7 so I guess I am going to have to do something to my environ…

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.8… http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/155

ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/156

ruby 1.8.7, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/157

Thanks Phillip, well this one confirms my environment has something wrong and is pretty clearly not something wrong with either Rails or Ruby. Well for now I think I am just going to work the project under 1.9.2 and then move it back to 1.8.7 for the client/production, not ideal but nor is creating vm or rebuilding my laptop at the moment.

Or install RVM and ditch the system ruby entirely?? I’ll admit I don’t remember if you’ve already gone that direction or not…

Yeah, thats what’s scary is that I have been using rvm the whole way through. Actually I just discovered that I have a dependency on an engine built in 1.8.7 so I guess I am going to have to do something to my environ…

I GOT IT!!! And I did it by trying to change to ruby 1.9.2 and remembering that I have an engine dependency which uses 1.8.7… and when I commented the code below I get a good DateTime object. Looks like (have to prove it after lunch), that what is below overrides the application config and as such something important does not happen. Thanks everyone for the help and sorry it is such a lame answer…

initializer “my_engine.load_config” do |app|

config_file = “#{Rails.root}/config/config.yml”

if File.exists?(config_file)

::APP_CONFIG = YAML.load_file(config_file)[Rails.env].symbolize_keys!

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = APP_CONFIG[:smtp]

ActionMailer::Base.default(APP_CONFIG[:mailer_defaults])

else

puts “No config.yml file found, run ‘rails g my_engine:install’”

end

end

So, if anyone has made it this far, I guess my next question would be as to how I can confirm whether active support (in particular the file mentioned above is getting loaded). Actually if Phillip, or someone else (running Ruby 1.8.7-p334 and Rails 3.0.7 ideally on Snow Leopard mac or close) to this set up can send me their output of DateTime.now.methods.sort, it would at least confirm things.

ruby 1.8.7, rails 2.3.8… http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/155

ruby 1.9.2, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/156

ruby 1.8.7, rails 3.0.7

http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/157

Thanks Phillip, well this one confirms my environment has something wrong and is pretty clearly not something wrong with either Rails or Ruby. Well for now I think I am just going to work the project under 1.9.2 and then move it back to 1.8.7 for the client/production, not ideal but nor is creating vm or rebuilding my laptop at the moment.

Or install RVM and ditch the system ruby entirely?? I’ll admit I don’t remember if you’ve already gone that direction or not…

Yeah, thats what’s scary is that I have been using rvm the whole way through. Actually I just discovered that I have a dependency on an engine built in 1.8.7 so I guess I am going to have to do something to my environ…

I GOT IT!!! And I did it by trying to change to ruby 1.9.2 and remembering that I have an engine dependency which uses 1.8.7… and when I commented the code below I get a good DateTime object. Looks like (have to prove it after lunch), that what is below overrides the application config and as such something important does not happen. Thanks everyone for the help and sorry it is such a lame answer…

initializer “my_engine.load_config” do |app|

config_file = “#{Rails.root}/config/config.yml”

if File.exists?(config_file)

::APP_CONFIG = YAML.load_file(config_file)[Rails.env].symbolize_keys!

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = APP_CONFIG[:smtp]

ActionMailer::Base.default(APP_CONFIG[:mailer_defaults])

else

puts “No config.yml file found, run ‘rails g my_engine:install’”

end

end

More info for posteriority if this ends up helping anyone: the actual conflict was the gem ‘home_run’ which was not referenced in my project but in the engine it depends on, unbenownst to me.

Once the dependency was removed from the engine, DateTime began to function correctly. I suspect that this problem might have to do with my local environment as home_run creates native extensions. I will try to post back here with final results if and when I rebuild or have a new mac, but until then we just removed the gem.