Rails 4 model returns always nil

Question

I am going crazy with the following error. I have a User class and two of its attributes (birthday & created_at => datetime) returns always nil besides it has a value on

Answer 1

Had the same problem, and it was specifically

config.active_record.default_timezone

This caused activerecord to return all UTC-stored timestamps as null. Not sure why, but removing it brought back all data. I was able to leave default config.time_zone in place.

Answer 2

config.active_record.default_timezone requires a symbol, either :local or :utc.

config.time_zone requires a regular time zone as you have done.

config.active_record.default_timezone determines whether to use Time.local (if set to :local) or Time.utc (if set to :utc) when pulling dates and times from the database. The default is :utc.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-active-record

Answer 3

I found the problem.

Some days ago I changed the config/application.rb file adding the following configuration to solve some issues with timezones:

config.time_zone and config.active_record.default_timezone

I've just removed them and all is working fine again.