Rails, how to determine if a user was created today?

Question

I would like a way to determine if a User record is new or not. Based on where I need to do this in my app, I would like to do this by know if the user was created today or now.

How can I do something like:

if current_user.created_at.today?

Any timezone issues? Maybe it would be better to do, created_at in the last 24 hours?

Thanks

Answer 1

I'd rather use current_user.created_at.to_date == Date.current, as it is more self explanatory.

Answer 2

To check if the user was created in the last 24 hours, do something like this:

if current_user.created_at > Time.now - 24.hours
  #...
end