Given a date I need to find out how many days until that date. for example if I am given march 29 and today is march 27 how would I return 2 days? I need to verify this in the controller and distance_of_time_in_words doesn''t work -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
> Given a date I need to find out how many days until that date. for > example if I am given march 29 and today is march 27 how would I return > 2 days?>> x = 3.days.from_now=> Sun Mar 30 20:55:40 -0700 2008>> y = Time.now=> Thu Mar 27 20:55:45 -0700 2008>> (x - y) / 86400=> 2.99994818523148>> x = 3.days.from_now.to_date=> #<Date: 4909111/2,0,2299161>>> y = Time.now.to_date=> #<Date: 4909105/2,0,2299161>>> (x - y).to_i=> 3 -philip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Philip Hallstrom wrote:>> Given a date I need to find out how many days until that date. for >> example if I am given march 29 and today is march 27 how would I return >> 2 days?How about: Date.tomorrow - Date.today Or: Date.new(2008, 4, 1) - Date.today -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---