Ferret talk - Dec 2006 - Format dates prior to index

Hi all-

I would like to enable search in my application via Ferret and a number
of my searchable classes contain dates (of type Time).  When these
classes are indexed, the dates are written per the standard to_s output
(e.g. "Wed Dec 07 08:56:04 CDT 2006"), which is not suitable for date
range queries.  Is it possible to format the dates before they are
indexed (e.g. "20061207") without writing additional methods that
output
the dates in this format?

Thanks,
Josh

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On 07.12.2006, at 22:28, Joshua Kahn wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I would like to enable search in my application via Ferret and a  
> number
> of my searchable classes contain dates (of type Time).  When these
> classes are indexed, the dates are written per the standard to_s  
> output
> (e.g. "Wed Dec 07 08:56:04 CDT 2006"), which is not suitable for
date
> range queries.  Is it possible to format the dates before they are
> indexed (e.g. "20061207") without writing additional methods that
> output
> the dates in this format?

Is there something wrong with writing an additional method that does  
the conversion? If you don''t need the extra precision of Time use  
Date. Its to_s method will give you "2006-12-07" right away.

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Andy

Nothing wrong, I was just hoping to avoid that.  I will look into using 
Date.

Thanks.

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