From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-01-30T15:59:48+09:00
Subject: Re: relative dates


On Jan 29, 2006, at 8:28 PM, A LeDonne wrote:

> On 1/29/06, Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> how can I do this? "last_week = 7.days.ago"

In rails you are already done:

 >> require_gem 'actionpack'
=> true
 >> last_week = 7.days.ago
=> Sun Jan 22 22:59:26 PST 2006
 >> p last_week
Sun Jan 22 22:59:26 PST 2006

-Ezra



>>
>> or subtract in seconds:
>>   last_week = today - 7*24*60*60
>>
>> Cameron
>>
>
> This is probably going to be easier with Date than with Time...
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> now = Date.today; now.strftime()
> => "2006-01-29"
> irb(main):003:0> last_week = now - 7; last_week.strftime()
> => "2006-01-22"
>
> If you are concerned about times, you can use DateTime in place of  
> Date above.
>
> -A
>

-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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