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Tag Archives: date and time
Page Rendering Time
A lot of websites show the page rendering time at the bottom. How can we implement this in our Rails website? We discuss a simple approach, where you wrap between two calls to Time.now (to get the current time). Subtracting them yields the time difference, in fractional seconds. Continue reading
Date and Time Fields in Object Forms
How can you create a date or datetime field in Rails, quickly and easily, for your form objects? Rails has two helpers–date_select, and datetime_select. Both take a model instance name and a field name; they generate multiple fields required for precise selection of date and time values. Continue reading
Created_On and Updated_On
Rails allows two special fields, created_on and updated_on, that it updates automatically. It tracks when model objects are created and updated. All you need to do is create the fields; Rails populates the values. Since these fields are useful, you can format them, to display them any way you please! Continue reading