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I am trying to calculate the number of days between 2 dates using Time.now - object.date where object.date is a date pulled from a database. I want to display the age of the entry in the database in days. I keep getting an error about not being able to convert a date into a float. What am I doing wrong. If I use object.date - object.date it seems to work but the answer is useless (0). I

Hi, How do i convert a Date to a Time?? I have a date returned from sql and i need to be able to use handy functions like next_week or beggining of week. Any help appreciated Thanks, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Howdy all, This may be the dumbest question in the world, but how can you "add one month" to a Date object? I can''t just add 30 days, because months have varying lengths. Any help would be much appreciated... Thanks! -Neal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hi When returning data from a database column set as a date field I get ''2006-06-06'' I am then have these two lines of code in my controller, taht gain the date I require. pNow = Time.now @pDate = Time.local(pNow.year, pNow.month, 1) At the monment one is set to a date data type while one is set to a Time data type. how can i change these to be the same data type so i can

In my view code, I have <%= datetime_select "in_out", "time_in" %> which returns in params :in_out: !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess time_in(1i): "2006" time_in(2i): "6" time_in(3i): "12" time_in(4i): "20" time_in(5i): "24" and I want to save that datetime to a column in the db... if

Hi, My setup is: Ruby 1.8.6 Rails 2.3.5 activerecord-oracle-adapter (1.0.0.9250) I upgraded Rails and the adapter recently and I just went through hell trying to find a problem while inserting a record in a table. Rails was giving me this error: OCIError (ORA-02289: sequence does not exist): stmt.c:539:in oci8lib.so c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:753:in `exec''

What I want to do is simple. I''d like code that prints out the name of this month (January) the next month (February) and the one after that (March) I''ve been able to print this month: <% t = Time.now %> <%= t.strftime(" This Month is: %B") %> But I can''t figure out how to get the next months to print out! -- Posted via

I am getting the month and day reversed in parsing a date. I am wondering if there is some intelligence in Ruby that knows that at the moment I am in Mexico, as the parsing is working as if I was "6/15/2008".to_date => ArgumentError: invalid date "15/6/2008".to_date => Sun, 15 Jun 2008 What I really want is my date to be understood as month/day/year. Is there a way to

Hi, I would like to make @dates in my controller. I tried the following: startdate = Time.now enddate = startdate.next_week for enddate > startdate @dates << startdate startdate = startdate.tomorrow end But I get an errormessage when I check the syntax: "warning: useless use of a variable in void context" Anyone? Thanks! Steven. -- Posted via

hi folks. i want to check if a param exists if not to set it to a default value for my date range filter. in my controller i have: @from_date = Date.strptime(params[:startdate],"%d/%m/%Y") @to_date = Date.strptime(params[:enddate],"%d/%m/%Y") @articles = @results.find(:all, :conditions => [ "created_at >= ? and created_at

Hi Experts I''ve a product like this ID -> 1 Name -> Xyz Price -> 30 Created_at -> 02-NOV-07 from_date = Date.new(2, 10, 07) to_date = Date.new(2, 10, 07) @product = Product.find_by_sql("select * from products where created_at between from_date and to_date") code works perfectly, buy my issue is i dont get any data. always says no record found but if i use

Hi, In my form I have date field set as ''datetime_select'' which is fine as I wanted it in the same format. But while displaying (list action) it displays date in long format i.e. ''Tue May 30 15:39:00 Central Daylight Time 2006''. How can I format it so that it will just be diaplyed as ''dd/mm/yyyy'' format? Thanks -- Posted via

Thanks for the bug report! I''ll get a new release out next week, I''ve been on vacation for a few weeks and I''m just getting up to speed with being back in a city. In the meantime, the fix is to apply the following patch (in Icalendar.decode_duration). I''ve also integrated your tests, thanks. Cheers, Sam diff -u -r1.22 icalendar.rb --- vpim/icalendar.rb 17

Hi, Just wondering how I get both the current date and time to display here (so far I can only get the date OR the time): @tblregisteredphone.txtregisterdatetime = Date.today Also, how can I change the format of the date and time from: Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 GMT Daylight Time 2006 to 2006-04-04 12:04:00 ?? I''m sure it''s very simple, I just don''t know how

Hi, I was wandering if anyone could help me with this problem: Right now I am using a field in my database which is of type ''Date'' (in the form dd-mm-yyyy). I would like to convert this value (for example 26-06-08) into a number of seconds since epoch or into another form so I can compare it with todays date (from Date.now) so that I can tell the difference between the two dates

Hey All, Anyone know of a library for parsing "human" dates, like "this friday" or "2 days ago"? I used to use strtotime in php, but starting from here; http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/PhpStrtotime and doing lots of googling, I haven''t been able to find anything similar for ruby. I know of javascript solutions to this, but I''d need to do

Hello all. I am a novice Ruby on Rails programmer, starting my first project using a legacy Oracle 10 database. Using ''reverse_scaffold'' I have created the models/controllers/views for my existing Oracle tables. All seems to work well, using /model/index, /model/show for most of my tables, *except* when one of the tables contains a Oracle ''date'' column, for

For the r script below >datestr <- "01/01/2004" >as.POSIXct(as.Date(datestr, "%d/%m/%Y")) I get the following output "2003-12-31 18:00:00 Central Standard Time" Why is the date a day before. I guess its something to do with the time, but is there a way to get it to return 2004-01-01 instead? Thanks in advance... -Sandeep [[alternative HTML version

Hello, Attached is a mail regarding question how to insert Date field using ROracle package. I am stuck with this problem and appreciate receiving help from gurus on this list. Code used mainly is: library(ROracle) ### --- Version 0.53 drv <- dbDriver("Oracle") con <- dbConnect( drv, "user/passwd") d <- data.frame(CDATE = "2004-03-10 10:12:00") ps

I am trying to download a bunch of files from a server, for which I am using download.file( ) within a for loop. The script is working fine except until download.file hits a URL which has no file, at which point it exits. I want to change this behavior to simple log the failure and maintain state within the for loop and iterate to next. I read about try / tryCatch but am having trouble