Rails 3: setting the timezone to the current users timezone

Question

I put this in Application Controller:

before_filter :set_timezone 

def set_timezone  
Time.zone = current_user.time_zone 
end  

But I alwa

Answer 1

Max -- the ryandaigle.com article you mentioned links to this writeup where you need to create a migration to add "time_zone" as an attribute to the user

(this is from the article, in rails 2.x syntax)

$ script/generate scaffold User name:string time_zone:string
$ rake db:migrate

later

<%= f.time_zone_select :time_zone, TimeZone.us_zones %>

That's why your .time_zone is returning a method_missing -- you haven't stored the time_zone on the user yet.