Rails ActiveRecord Find / Search by Date

Question

I am trying to find records by \'created_at\' date - the database column type is \'datetime\' and I am using the UI DatePicker from jQuery

my url look like this: \"

Answer 1

A simple solution I use sometimes is to cast the date(time) field as text on the database rather than parse the string into date on application side. For your case that would be:

where('CAST(created_at AS text) LIKE ?', params[:selected_date])

Might not be the most effective on the database (depending on the context you use it in) but saves a lot of pita on the application side.