Question

I have a few more basic questions about Ruby on Rails.

1) When I call time.now, I get this result: 2011-06-21 19:11:00.518140
The time/date-notation is fine for me, but what is that .518140? Is there an easy way to remove this?

2) It seems my server time is also incorrect (it’s not 19:11 right now). I’m using WEBrick; where can I change the time?

3) I’m using a basic authentication system with this code (from the RoR tutorials):

  def authenticate
    authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user_name, password|
      user_name == 'admin' && password = 'admin'
    end
  end

It works fine, but when I enter an incorrect password, I get a white page with the text HTTP Basic: Access denied. Is there a way to change this error page to something more user-friendly?

Thank you!

Answer 1

1. That would be microseconds. Try Time.now.to_s(:db)
:db is defined as "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" which you can use without Rails ActiveSupport like this

Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

2. That depends on what OS you are running.