Extract month from date column

Rails
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Hi,

I have this rails query:
@birthdays = Birthday.find :all,
:conditions => ["user_id = ? and
birthdate = ‘2006-02-01’, @user_id],
:limit =>
@birthday_pages.items_per_page,
:offset =>
@birthday_pages.current.offset

You can ignore the user_id, limit and offset part. Birthdate is date
type. That query lists the row which birthdate is 2006-02-01. How do I
extract month from birthdate column; something like this:
… birthdate.month = 2 …
I want to query all the rows which in February or another month.

I have though the solution; something like this:
… birthdate >= start_of_the_month and birthdate <= end_of_the_month
… ( we find start and end of the month from ruby )
but maybe rails has simpler way…

Thank you.

2

How do I

extract month from birthdate column; something like this:
… birthdate.month = 2 …

I couldn’t find anything at http://api.rubyonrails.com/

You could try extending with a method thats build some custom SQL

WHERE MONTH(birthdate);

_T