# "@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion": false? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 24, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshal-with-utc-coercion-false/166403 "2009-04-24T21:03:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/morgan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshal-with-utc-coercion-false/166403/1 "2009-04-24T21:03:14Z")
this is a debug on the @schedules variable which contains a bunch of start and end times pulled from a mysql database. attributes: schedule\_type: “7” schedule\_start: 2009-04-24 04:00:00 id: “21” uid: “12” schedule\_end: 2009-04-24 11:00:00 attributes\_cache: schedule\_start: !timestamp at: “2009-04-24 04:00:00 -04:00” “@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion”: false schedule\_end: !timestamp at: “2009-04-24 11:00:00 -04:00” “@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion”: false i have no clue what this means… I’ve never gotten this one before. ---
**Author:** ![morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/morgan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshal-with-utc-coercion-false/166403/2 "2009-04-24T21:04:45Z")
Morgan M. wrote: > this is a debug on the @schedules variable which contains a bunch of > start and end times pulled from a mysql database. > > attributes: > schedule\_type: “7” > schedule\_start: 2009-04-24 04:00:00 > id: “21” > uid: “12” > schedule\_end: 2009-04-24 11:00:00 > attributes\_cache: > schedule\_start: !timestamp > at: “2009-04-24 04:00:00 -04:00” > “@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion”: false > schedule\_end: !timestamp > at: “2009-04-24 11:00:00 -04:00” > “@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion”: false > > i have no clue what this means… I’ve never gotten this one before. i thought i’d post the whole debug - !ruby/object:schedule attributes: schedule\_type: “7” schedule\_start: 2009-04-24 04:00:00 id: “21” uid: “12” schedule\_end: 2009-04-24 11:00:00 attributes\_cache: schedule\_start: !timestamp at: “2009-04-24 04:00:00 -04:00” “@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion”: false schedule\_end: !timestamp at: “2009-04-24 11:00:00 -04:00” “@marshal\_with\_utc\_coercion”: false ---
**Author:** ![morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/morgan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshal-with-utc-coercion-false/166403/3 "2009-04-24T22:32:24Z")
Jeremy K. wrote: > It’s Active Support fixing a bug in Ruby 1.8.x where UTC times are > incorrectly unmarshaled as local, not UTC, times. > > So we flag that the time is UTC when it’s dumped and coerce it back to > UTC when it’s loaded. > > jeremy > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Morgan M. i just noticed that it produces a page of errors in the error log. Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 11 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 11; missing\_attribute(‘11’, caller) unless @attributes.has\_key?(‘11’); @attributes[‘11’]; end ^ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end def 11; missing\_attribute(‘11’, caller) unless @attributes.has\_key?(‘11’); @attributes[‘11’]; end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 11 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 11=(new\_value);write\_attribute(‘11’, new\_value);end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 11 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 11?; query\_attribute(‘11’); end ^ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end def 11?; query\_attribute(‘11’); end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 12 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 12; missing\_attribute(‘12’, caller) unless @attributes.has\_key?(‘12’); @attributes[‘12’]; end ^ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end def 12; missing\_attribute(‘12’, caller) unless @attributes.has\_key?(‘12’); @attributes[‘12’]; end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 12 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 12=(new\_value);write\_attribute(‘12’, new\_value);end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 12 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 12?; query\_attribute(‘12’); end ^ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end def 12?; query\_attribute(‘12’); end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 13 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 13; missing\_attribute(‘13’, caller) unless @attributes.has\_key?(‘13’); @attributes[‘13’]; end ^ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end def 13; missing\_attribute(‘13’, caller) unless @attributes.has\_key?(‘13’); @attributes[‘13’]; end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 13 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 13=(new\_value);write\_attribute(‘13’, new\_value);end ^ Exception occurred during reader method compilation. Maybe 13 is not a valid Ruby identifier? compile error /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER def 13?; query\_attribute(‘13’); end ^ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active\_record/attribute\_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end def 13?; query\_attribute(‘13’); end ^ i don’t know if this is normal… ---
**Author:** ![morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/morgan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshal-with-utc-coercion-false/166403/4 "2009-05-18T23:13:03Z")
So is there any way to make this stop happening that doesn’t involve going back to an old version of rails. ---
**Author:** ![morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@morgan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/morgan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/marshal-with-utc-coercion-false/166403/5 "2009-04-24T22:17:10Z")
It’s Active Support fixing a bug in Ruby 1.8.x where UTC times are incorrectly unmarshaled as local, not UTC, times. So we flag that the time is UTC when it’s dumped and coerce it back to UTC when it’s loaded. jeremy On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Morgan M.