How can I search date range in Rails with variable date

Question

How can I do this in rails active record¿?

find all models that match (created_at + 100 days between this month)

Edit: Ok, Sorry for not be precise this what

Answer 1

In Rails 3 you can use:

YourModel.where(:created_at => start_date..end_date)

where start_date and end_date are Date class.

Answer 2

ActiveRecord can build a query using a BETWEEN when it accepts a Range. This sounds like it might be more what you are looking for.

YourModel.where(created_at: 100.days.ago..100.days.from_now)

It always seems a little simpler to do this than using >= <= in the query

Answer 3

You didn't specify Rails 2 or 3, and I'm not entirely sure what range you're actually looking for, but this should get you started. Please add some example dates and say whether they should fall into your range or not.

In Rails 2 you can use a named_scope in your model.

# This range represents "created_at" values that are within 100 days on either side of today.
# Please clarify what "created_at + 100 days between this month" means if you need help
# refining this.
#
named_scope :within_range, lambda {{ :conditions => ["created_at <= ? AND created_at >= ?", Date.today + 100, Date.today - 100] }}

In Rails 3, you would use a scope with the new Arel scope methods:

scope :within_range, lambda { where("created_at <= ? AND created_at >= ?", Date.today + 100, Date.today - 100) }

Answer 4

If I understood, you need something like this:

date = Date.today
after = date.start_of_month - 100
before = date.end_of_month - 100

YourModel.find(:all, :conditions => ['created_at > ? AND created_at < ?', after, before])

or in scope (rails 2):

# shorter name is needed
named_scope :created_100_days_before_this_month, lambda do |date|
  after = date.start_of_month - 100
  before = date.end_of_month - 100
  YourModel.find(:all, :conditions => ['created_at > ? AND created_at < ?', after, before])
end