Date Range comparison

Rails
1

I have a set of dates in my database and would like to only get the
latest one or the one closest to the current date. I’m trying to come up
with a way of doing it but had no luck. If any one could help I would
appreciate it.

2

Sort by date with a limit of one? Hopefully you have an index on that
field?

On Jan 19, 8:54 am, Sam G. [email protected]

3

David Medinets wrote:

Sort by date with a limit of one? Hopefully you have an index on that
field?

On Jan 19, 8:54�am, Sam G. [email protected]

forgot to mention that I’m using thinking sphinx as a search engine my
statement looks like this

@allRooms = Room.search :conditions => {:created_at => here is where I
should have a statement}

4

You can do this in ActiveRecord is

Room.find :first, :order => ‘created_at desc’

See
http://ts.freelancing-gods.com/rdoc/classes/ThinkingSphinx/Search.html#M000071for
more about ordering search results, which is really what you want.

I don’t think the AR flavor I gave above is likely to work out of the
box
with the Sphinx #search method. However, you could probably just ignore
the
Sphinx part if you really just want the most recently-created record of
your
rooms table, and let AR retrieve it for you.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Sam G.
<[email protected]