Rails - Mar 2006 - New and lost

I am very new with Ruby on Rails and most coding in general. I have 
created a DB table with birthdays and names. The birthdays are split 
into two fields (Month and Day). Using this table I would like to 
display birthdays for the current month.

How can this be done?

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On 3/9/06, Rich Hall <rich@pcu.org> wrote:
>
> I am very new with Ruby on Rails and most coding in general. I have
> created a DB table with birthdays and names. The birthdays are split into
> two fields (Month and Day). Using this table I would like to display
> birthdays for the current month.
>
> How can this be done?
>
Have you created the model? (script/generate create model Birthday)

Have you created a controller?

Specifically, you probably want something like:

@birthdays_this_month = Birthdays.find(:all, :conditions => "month
"+Time.now.month.to_s)

I don''t mean to be rude, but I would suggest you start off with one of
the
tutorials or videos (http://www.rubyonrails.org/docs) and let it guide you
through some of these early questions, before starting your own project.



-- Joshua
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On Mar 9, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Rich Hall wrote:
> I am very new with Ruby on Rails and most coding in general. I have
> created a DB table with birthdays and names. The birthdays are split
> into two fields (Month and Day). Using this table I would like to
> display birthdays for the current month.
>
> How can this be done?
>
Pretty broad question, but I might be able to take a quick gander.

First, assuming you''ve got your database.yml file set up to connect  
to your database properly, add a controller, something like:

# app/controllers/birthdays_controller.rb:
class BirthdaysController < ApplicationController
   def show
     @people = Person.find_all_by_month(params[:month])
   end
end

The above code assumes that (a) you have a model called Person that  
(probably) maps to your DB table is called "people", and (b) that you
have a route set up in routes.rb, like so:

map.connect ''birthdays/show/:month'', :controller =>  
''birthdays'', :action => ''show''

Next, you''d create the view for the ''show'' action
inside app/views/
birthdays/show.rhtml:
<ul>
<% for person in @people %>
   <li><%= person.name %>: <%= person.month %> / <%=
person.day %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>

Then you should be able to visit your view (once your server is  
running) at http://localhost:3000/birthdays/show/8 (e.g. show August  
birthdays).

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)
http://blog.inquirylabs.com/