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I''m having a problem converting a date retrieved from my MySQL database and I''m hoping someone can help. MySQL stores the date/time as this: 2005-03-08 17:00:34.0 and according to my Pickaxe book Ruby stores times as "the number of seconds and microseconds since [...] January 1, 1970". All well and good. Unfortunately, RoR is converting my date to this:

Hello all, Rails 1.0.0 created_on is being set to 2000/01/01 00:00:00 Any ideas on this ? Thanks! Schema is create table user_login_history ( id int identity(1,1) not null, user_id int not null, created_on datetime default(getdate()) not null, created_at datetime default(getdate()) not null, updated_on datetime default(getdate()) not null, constraint pk_user_login_history primary key clustered

I''ve found an issue when trying to use the time_ago_in_words and distance_of_time_in_words from action view''s date_helper.rb Using SQL Server, I have a datetime column that gets returned as: "2007/02/21 09:54:00". When I pass this to time_ago_in_words (which just passes on to distance_of_time_in_words) it miscalculates the difference as "9 hours" (...um yeah,

Hi Experts, I''ve a model called Product where i''ve column called created_at, updated_at where i''ve made a query based on Oracle date format like date_of_created = ''23-SEP-07'' @product = Product.find(:all, :conditions => ["created_at=?", date_of_created]) but in view its empty. AND EXPERTS I''VE DATA WITH 24-SEP-07 FOR MORE

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

I''m trying to add an RSS feed to my app, and am going through the Rails Recipes chapter on doing so. I get the following error when I request the feed: undefined method `gmtime'' for #<DateTime: 1963061961/800,0,2299161> ... 7: xml.pubDate CGI.rfc1123_date(@posts.first.created_on) Any idea what''s up? Pat

So, I wrote some pages which essentially created some articles which are saved to a database, which also include both the "magic" rows ''created_at'' and ''updated_at''. Now, on my development machine I''m running the MySQL-database and everything worked as I wanted it to. On the live server I''ve had to switch to PostgreSQL 8.1 due to

Hi, I want to calculate difference between Current date & previous date (stored in database). The difference should be in days. Hhow to do that?? PLs tell me. Thanx in advance. Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, I am trying to implement a feature in my app where a user posts a message along with an image. This is something similar to what is there in `www.diasp.org` . I dealing with a pretty much outdated configuration of Rails 2.0.2 and Ruby 1.8.7 , both running on Ubuntu 10.04 OS for project specific purposes. Initially, I found a problem in finding an appropriate plugin for paperclip

I am not the Ruby aficionado yet, if I have created_on ...timestamp. What is a ruby way of getting the hours/minutes/seconds ago. is there some class that has this implemented. For example: Posted on 3/28/2006 Show a time with: posted: 1 day ago ... something along those lines. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse:

All I want to do is find the objects that were created today under the ''created_on'' column. I''ve tried many ways, here is one example using the chronic gem. @products = Product.find_all_by_created_on(Chronic.parse(''today'')) I must be missing something right in front of me .... Thanks for any help.

HEllo, I have the following problem with rails, I am new in this...is there anyone who explain to me what´s happens? Thanks See below: NoMethodError in Classified#show Showing app/views/classified/show.rhtml where line #17 raised: undefined method `updated_at'' for #<Classified:0x686c5e4> Extracted source (around line #17): 14: 15: <strong>Date Posted:</strong>

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

Hello, I am trying to put my rails app on a host .So I presume the method to do this is to first do rake db_schema_dump and then copy it to the host and do rake db_schema_import. I use mySQL Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.14, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 4.3 ** Invoke db_schema_import (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db_schema_import rake

Hello everyone, For some time I was studying Ruby on Rails, Active Record ideology and other thing related with RoR right now I still know a lot more about PHP than RoR. I am almost ready to start writing websites using RoR and get more experience. But I still have some questions before starting and I can''t start without answers. If you could simply answer some of them, would be great.

I have a model which has the created_on and updated_on fields. I would like to find the newest instances of my model from the database(for instance, last 10), but as I''m only 6 weeks into my Rails development, I''m not entirely sure how to do it. Any suggestions? Thanks, David

Hi all, I have a question about filtering on a variable. If I have the following code in my controller to select a list of users > @allusers = User.find(:all, > :conditions => [''team_id = ?'', @params["id"], > :order => ''created_at'') Is there an easy way to find out all users who

Hey all, How can I search date with ferret? Do I need to submit them in a special format? Right now I have in my Item model: acts_as_ferret :fields => [:created_on] with eg created_on = Thu May 11 17:00:00 -0500 2006 now when I do Item.find_by_content("created_on:<#{Time.now}") I get nil, I''m probably doing something wrong. Any idea how to fix it? thanx in advance

What''s going on here!? >> Date.new.to_time.to_i NoMethodError: undefined method `to_i'' for Mon, 01 Jan -4712 00:00:00 -0800:DateTime from (irb):25 >> Date.today.to_time.to_i => 1245308400 >> RUBY_VERSION => "1.8.7" >> Rails.version => "2.1.1" (I''m not sure if this is a rails thing, or just a ruby thing) --

Hi, i''ve found some questions on the rails blog which haven''t any answer. Because i''m interested too i paste them here: # gonzo on 07 Dec 22:10: Does CSRF protection work with forms that are fully cached? # rugal on 08 Dec 20:14: Great job guys! Just an information about migrations. will t.timestamps create both created_at and updated_at? And for _on ?