similar to: Rails 2.2.2 to_date and to_datetime methods

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:

I''m trying to set a date field''s day to the last day of the month before I save it. I can do this successfully now using this code: class Account < ActiveRecord::Base def before_save self.exp_date = last_day_of_month(self.exp_date) end # Returns a Date object set to the last day of the current month def last_day_of_month(date = Date.today) next_month_str

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

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 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 there, Im reading a date out of a database and I need to subtract exactly 1 month from that date? It needs to be bullet proof so that if the date says 31 and the previous month only has 28 days it wont just subtract 1 from the month and make an illegal date. Thanks Petr -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this

Hi, I need to parse the rss feed and use the pubDate field to generate a field in a xml file to use as an input to simile timeline. RSS returns the pubDate as : Sun Feb 24 06:33:32 UTC 2008 But I need it as a string : "Feb 24 2008 06:33:32 PST" When I do : ... @dt=feed_item.time @dt=@dt.to_date word_date=''%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z'' puts @dt.strftime(word_date) ...

Hi! I have a table with visits with a visited_at: attribute which is a datetime field. They seem to be stored as UTC. Now I want to count all visits each day and return something like: { 2013-01-01: 8, 2013-01-02: 4, 2013-01-07: 9, ... } So, I did it like this which kind of works...: def self.total_grouped_by_day(start_date, end_date) visits = where(visited_at:

Hi guys, I''m trying to make an AR model which accepts a string data (from a text input) in euro date format eg <input .... value = "23/01/2006"> ( 23 Jan 2006) Reading the example from RDoc... i tried to overwrite/overload/override the = function to write in the date.. Cant get it to work because .. i dont knoe what format should it accept.. i''ve tried

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

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''ve discovered a strange behavior regarding ActiveRecord and TimeWithZone I''ve seen the error when using SQL Server, I have not yet tried with any other database. Here''s output from the console - "User" is a simple model made with a migration. ----------------------------------------- >> d1 = User.find(:first).created_at => Thu, 21 Jun 2001

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''

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, I''m stuck. How do you parse a "dd/mm/yyyy" formatted date string??? I get a date format error. Thanks in advance Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hi All, I'm having problems getting results from a PHP file. This is what the CLI is showing. -- Executing [111 at internal:1] AGI("Console/dsp", "GoTalk.php") in new stack -- Launched AGI Script /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/GoTalk.php [Dec 14 11:57:25] ERROR[20260]: utils.c:1019 ast_carefulwrite: write() returned error: Broken pipe If I run the PHP file from

Hi, I''m getting the error below, and I''m not sure where to find "acts_as_list" ... NameError in SpecialsController#printer undefined local variable or method `acts_as_list'' for #<Class: 0xb7a46994> RAILS_ROOT: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/dps Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace vendor/plugins/trunk/lib/scope_out.rb:70:in

I abandoned ruby way for find_by_sql and still can''t get this... @myplacement = Placement.find_by_sql( "select * from placement where :intake_date >= beg_intake_date and :intake_date <= end_intake_date") just a simple date range...it''s killing me - If I knew how to load placement controller into irb, I could probably try out finds interactive mode... Thanks

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

i have an error undefined method `stringify_keys!'' for "":String my view is given below <%= form_tag :action => ''resolve_create'', :resolve => @resolve %> <p>resolution:<br /> <%= text_area ''resolve'',''content'', :cols => 40, :rows => 12 %></p> <%= submit_tag