ActiveRecord is not aware of timezones? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have one question regarding to time zone
I have done the following yet, my activerecord is not still matching with my timezone when I do following query
def stock_by_date(date)
UserStock.where("date(created_at) = ? and user_id = ? ", date , current_user.id)
end
I did the following in side my application.rb
config.active_record.default_timezone = :utc
config.active_record.time_zone_aware_attributes = true
config.beginning_of_week = :sunday
config.active_record.time_zone_aware_types = [:datetime, :time]
I added timezone field to my sign up method, and it shows the current day of timezone correctly, yet when I added a stock for the current day timezone, it shows up in either the previous day or next day of current daytime zone and when I added my stock, the timestamp is for a day before when I look at the rails console
My schema.rb
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2018_11_28_183416) do
create_table "friendships", force: :cascade do |t|
t.integer "user_id"
t.integer "friend_id"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.index ["friend_id"], name: "index_friendships_on_friend_id"
t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_friendships_on_user_id"
end
create_table "notes", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "content"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.integer "user_id"
t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_notes_on_user_id"
end
create_table "stocks", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "ticker"
t.string "name"
t.decimal "last_price"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
end
create_table "user_stocks", force: :cascade do |t|
t.integer "user_id"
t.integer "stock_id"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.index ["stock_id"], name: "index_user_stocks_on_stock_id"
t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_user_stocks_on_user_id"
end
create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "email", default: "", null: false
t.string "encrypted_password", default: "", null: false
t.string "reset_password_token"
t.datetime "reset_password_sent_at"
t.datetime "remember_created_at"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.string "first_name"
t.string "last_name"
t.string "time_zone", default: "UTC"
t.index ["email"], name: "index_users_on_email", unique: true
t.index ["reset_password_token"], name: "index_users_on_reset_password_token", unique: true
end
end
for example,
How can I fix this issue?
Note: If more info is needed, please let me know
Note: for the matter of being concise this is my repo
Note: my configuration does not show a reliable behavior at all and I am very confused :/ and I have the same issue for note of a current day
----update-------------------
In my rails console

Answer 1

create a migration with this content to remove the default value to created_at, so it's not filled by default on database level.
change_column_default(:user_stocks, :created_at, nil)
after that, when you create a new UserStock, you need to specify the created_at value, and there you can specify the created_at with the date of the user, taking care of the timezone.
UserStock.create(created_at: Time.now.in_time_zone(user.time_zone).to_time...)
or you can just maybe add it to a callback on the model so it's automatic everytime you create a UserStock, it change the value
class UserStock < ActiveRecord::Base
before_create :set_created_at
private
def set_created_at
self.created_at = time.now.in_time_zone(self.user.time_zone).to_time
end
end
so everytime you create one, the value is correct. with that it may work as expected.
Another option if you don't need it just for that specific model and use them for all the user interaction, you can create a before filter on the application controller to set the time zone dinamically, something like
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :set_time_zone
def set_time_zone(&block)
time_zone = current_user.try(:time_zone) || 'UTC'
Time.use_zone(time_zone, &block)
end
end

Answer 2

Did you try the query by specifying the range?
Because you're trying to find the user_stocks that are created on some date. But notice that created_at is a datetime object and I guess your date variable might be just a date object.
def stock_by_date(date)
UserStock.where(created_at: date.midnight..date.end_of_day, user_id: current_user.id)
end