ActiveSupport

The TimeZone class serves as a wrapper around TZInfo::Timezone instances. It allows us to do the following:

Limit the set of zones provided by TZInfo to a meaningful subset of 142 zones.
Retrieve and display zones with a friendlier name (e.g., "Eastern Time (US & Canada)" instead of "America/New_York").
Lazily load TZInfo::Timezone instances only when they're needed.
Create ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone instances via TimeZone's local, parse, at and now methods.

If you set config.time_zone in the Rails Initializer, you can access this TimeZone object via Time.zone:

# environment.rb:
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.time_zone = "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"
end

Time.zone       # => #<TimeZone:0x514834...>
Time.zone.name  # => "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"
Time.zone.now   # => Sun, 18 May 2008 14:30:44 EDT -04:00

The version of TZInfo bundled with Active Support only includes the definitions necessary to support the zones defined by the TimeZone class. If you need to use zones that aren't defined by TimeZone, you'll need to install the TZInfo gem (if a recent version of the gem is installed locally, this will be used instead of the bundled version.)

XmlMini LibXML implementation

XmlMini LibXML implementation using a SAX-based parser

XmlMini Nokogiri implementation

XmlMini Nokogiri implementation using a SAX-based parser

XmlMini ReXML implementation

OrderedHash is namespaced to prevent conflicts with other implementations

Constants

Base64
FrozenObjectError
SecureRandom: Use Ruby's SecureRandom library if available.

Public Class Methods

load_all!() click to toggle source

# File lib/active_support.rb, line 25
def self.load_all!
  [Dependencies, Deprecation, Gzip, MessageVerifier, Multibyte, SecureRandom, TimeWithZone]
end

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