On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Colin Law<[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/6/18 sinker <[email protected]>: >> >> Thanks, that totally makes sense. I just tossed it in the view to make >> sure it worked. Moved it into the index controller and the final looks >> like this: >> >> if (1..5).include?(Date.today.wday) >> else >> redirect_to :controller => 'libraries', :action => 'index' >> end >> > > Have you considered the time zone issue if this is for a public > website? Does Date.today know the timezone of the user? If not and > it works in the local timezone of the server (or maybe the rails > timezone setting, or UTC) then if a user is in a different timezone > his weekend may be up to 23 hours adrift from that (depending on the > server/rails timezone setting).
You could use Time.zone = current_user.timezone # which would probably be in a before_filter and then Time.zone.now instead of Date.today -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
