Localtime::Rails

This gem just packages up some javascript that will help turn server timestamps (i.e. created_at) to local browser time.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'localtime-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install localtime-rails

For rails, add this line to application.js:

//= require localtime

Let's say you're listing users...

%table
  - @users.each do |user|
    %tr
      %td= user.name
      %td= user.created_at

...user.created_at will yield something like this:

2013-11-12 21:10:02 UTC

Now, you can take that "created_at" server time stamp, and make it relevant to the user...

%table
  - @users.each do |user|
    %tr
      %td= user.name
      %td.local-time
        = user.created_at

...now user.created_at will look something like this:

11/12/2013 7:10 AM

If you have some sort of asynchronous Javascript that's executing after the initial page load, you can always call the function...

localizeTime();

You can see a sample rails app here: localtime-example