The bundled TZInfo is intentionally limited in size. If you have the full version installed, Rails will load that instead. See also this ticket: http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/1344
--Matt Jones On Mar 13, 4:26 pm, matto <[email protected]> wrote: > I downloaded version 0.3.12 of TZInfo from [1], and observed that it > has a very robust set of timezones including, for example, 'America/ > Anchorage': > > irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' > => false > irb(main):002:0> require 'tzinfo' > => true > irb(main):003:0> TZInfo::Timezone.get('America/Anchorage') > => #<TZInfo::DataTimezone: America/Anchorage> > > Within Rails 2.2, however, which appears to have the same version of > the gem (see the error that follows), the set of timezones is far more > limited. > > irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' > => true > irb(main):002:0> require 'active_support' > => true > irb(main):003:0> TZInfo::Timezone.get('America/Anchorage') > TZInfo::InvalidTimezoneIdentifier: no such file to load -- tzinfo/ > definitions/America/Anchorage > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/ > active_support/vendor/tzinfo-0.3.12/tzinfo/timezone.rb:108:in `get' > from (irb):3 > > Perhaps the maintainers of TZInfo didn't bump up the version number of > the gem after adding additional timezone data? > > Matt > > [1]http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=894 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
