# ActiveSupport getting started / tips / sharings for newcomer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 7, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activesupport-getting-started-tips-sharings-for-newcomer/189760 "2010-06-07T09:04:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sentinel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@sentinel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sentinel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activesupport-getting-started-tips-sharings-for-newcomer/189760/1 "2010-06-07T09:04:42Z")
I was googling for some kind of tutorial or getting started for ActiveSupport. Other than going through the extensive rubydoc is there any post/blog that lists some of the salient or most useful/ most popular features for a new comer. What are your favorite or most used classes/features ? I am essentially developing stand-alone apps on the command line - not web. One tip I found was date time related: > **[Ruby Quicktips](https://rubyquicktips.com/post/472808699/string-conversions-using-activesupport)** > > ActiveSupport adds some methods to convert strings into dates/times. It’s very nice, take a look. > Instead of > \>\> Date.parse('2010-01-12') =\> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 > you can do: > \>\> '2010-01-12'.to\_date =\>... ---
**Author:** ![sentinel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@sentinel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sentinel)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activesupport-getting-started-tips-sharings-for-newcomer/189760/2 "2010-08-19T16:53:07Z")
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:04 AM, R… Kumar [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > web. > A new guide covering the core extensions is about to be out with Rails > 3, the edge version is online ``` http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions.html ``` It is a reference rather than a tutorial, but you have there everything in one place. Also I’ve tried hard to provide non-toy examples (some extracted from Rails, its main client), and explore edge cases and stuff that is not normally covered in existing material.