Forum: Ruby on Rails Use Time.zone.parse outside of Rails

Hi guys,

I am trying to use an ActiveRecord function in a Ruby script, and I 
can't
get it to work. I am using ActiceRecord 3.2.8.

> require 'active_support/all'
> Time.zone.parse("2012-10-20")
NoMethodError: undefined method `parse' for nil:NilClass
from (irb):2
from /Users/pjj/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p320/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'


Time.zone.parse works absolutely fine in a Rails console.

I am not sure what step I am missing. What is Rails doing to let us use
this function directly?

Thanks a lot
PJ

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:30 AM, PierreW <wamrewam@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> require 'active_support/all'
>> Time.zone.parse("2012-10-20")
> NoMethodError: undefined method `parse' for nil:NilClass

> Time.zone.parse works absolutely fine in a Rails console.
>
> I am not sure what step I am missing. What is Rails doing to let us use this
> function directly?

Setting Time.zone to a value so it's not nil  :-)

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