Question

For instance, if a user submits a post, there should be a delay period of maybe 10 minutes in which he or she cannot submit another post.

Could someone point me to a good gem/tutorial/method? For reference, I’m on Rails 3.

Answer 1

If your tracking by user, you can keep a column called last_active which is a datetime field, and update it when the user submits the form. (Assuming there aren’t a lot of form,s, then maybe think about giving these timestamps their own model).

Then, just perform date math to see if ten minutes has gone by.

user.last_active + 10.minutes > Time.now ? "User can post" : "User cannot post"

Note: Not in front of a console, that might be 10.minute

Then your form logic:

def form_stuff
  //Form Logic
  @user.last_active = Time.now
end