Return yr/mo archive of posts

Rails
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looking at ways to return an archive, by year/month

in the past, (via php) i’d do something like pull all the entries,
ordered by date and iterate through them, doing a check on the month and
year and adding them to an array if there was a change

that method doesn’t really feel very fluid or rails-like.

any suggestions?

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On 6.2.2006, at 0.35, matthew collins wrote:

looking at ways to return an archive, by year/month

in the past, (via php) i’d do something like pull all the entries,
ordered by date and iterate through them, doing a check on the
month and year and adding them to an array if there was a change

that method doesn’t really feel very fluid or rails-like.

any suggestions?

You probably want to extend your domain model with a specialized
finder method.

This is how it’s done in Typo:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

Find all articles on a certain date

def self.find_all_by_date(year, month = nil, day = nil)
from, to = self.time_delta(year, month, day)
Article.find_published(:all, :conditions => [“created_at
BETWEEN ? AND ?”,
from, to],
:order => “#
{Article.table_name}.created_at DESC”)
end

protected

def self.time_delta(year, month = nil, day = nil)
from = Time.mktime(year, month || 1, day || 1)

 to   = from + 1.year
 to   = from + 1.month unless month.blank?
 to   = from + 1.day   unless day.blank?
 to   = to.tomorrow    unless month.blank?
 return [from, to]

end

After that, you can just call Article.find_all_by_date with arbitrary
year/month/date values.

//jarkko

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