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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

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

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

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

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:

The Time::next_week method is supposed to give the time of the start of the next week. But look at this, it cocks up : >> t=Time.parse "Monday October 16th 2006" => Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week => Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week.next_week => Mon Oct 30

i ran into an error today when dealing with the method next_week and daylight savings time... >> Time.local( 2006,10,23 ).next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2006 Any one know if this is a know issue or should a ticket be created for this issue? thanks for the help mark -- Mark Van Holstyn mvette13@gmail.com http://lotswholetime.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

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

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''m using the date_select and datetime_select helpers in my view, and they return Date classes from the params hash. But how do I work with Date classes, they don''t print human readable dates or times, Time classes work well I can use strftime("%H:%M") to print to the screen. Is it possible to convert a Date to a Time, Ive been tinkering in irb but have got

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

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

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

Tried googling and searching the lists for this. I''d like to do a search on some dates and naturally enough use the date helpers. I have a number of problems: -- datetime_select wants an active record model -- select_datetime does not take the options that datetime_select take - specifically :order that leaves me with something like <label>Date/Time

Hello everyone, I am trying to convince my colleagues to convert to Ruby on Rails, however I am up against the following problem: Ruby on rails seems to be primarily designed a single database doing a small number of queries. While trying to process a webpage that does thousands of sql queries on Oracle, I get the message that I have used up too many cursors. In Java, I can use stmt.close()

Hi, I''m trying to use ParseDate within a for loop but I get this error: can''t dup NilClass Any suggestions for making this work? Thanks, -Jason

The input values could be something like this: 01-Dec-2006 01-December-2006 1-June-2006 Is there an easy to way to get the three variables populated dd, mmm and yyyy for any of the above input values? I tried to look at regex but couldn'' anything simple. Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

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) --