How to create “Upcoming birthdays” module in Rails?

Question

I have a table \"users\" with a column \"date_of_birth\" (DATE format with day, month, year). In frontend I need to list 5 upcoming birthdays.

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Answer 1

It's better to use SQL to make this query:

next_month = (Date.today + 1.month).month # or use any other integer

users_having_birhtday_next_month = 
  User.where("EXTRACT(MONTH FROM date_of_birth) = ?", next_month)

Note: EXTRACT - PostgreSQL function