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

Here's how I find today's birthdays:

User.find_by_sql("select * from users where date_format(date_of_birth, '%m%d') = date_format(now(), '%m%d')")

I run this once a day. It takes less than a second from about 100,000 rows. (It doesn't properly handle people born on Feb 29th.)