Hello,
I am a complete newbie with Ruby and Rails. I am working on learning it
by writing a project I was going to write in PHP using Rails. I am
having a difficult time finding clear information on how I would do
this.
I need to take a date out of a table in my database and given another
day calculate the next 28 day anniversery of the original date. This is
used to calculate a delivery schedule based on every 28 day deliveries
It is currently calculated in a spreadsheet using this method.
=B3+28 + (INT((B4-B3)/28)*28)
Where B3 is the start date(which will be pulled from a table) and B4 is
the current date (or any date in the future).
So if B3 is April 3, 2006 and B4 is January 10, 2007 it will give me
February 5, 2007.
Any tips on how I could accomplish this? I tried various methods but
they started to get long and didn’t seem to be as clean as most of the
Rails/Ruby code I’ve seen.
this will kill you…
Time.now + 28.days
Mikkel B.
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Mikkel B. wrote:
this will kill you…
Time.now + 28.days
Mikkel B.
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Yes that will figure out what 28 days from now is, but it doesn’t give
me what I asked.
That tells me the next day from now, but I want to calulate the next day
based on an original date that could be 2 years in the past and a future
date that could be 3 years from right now.
On 3/31/06, Wes S. [email protected] wrote:
based on an original date that could be 2 years in the past and a future
date that could be 3 years from right now.
You have a Date object right? If so, add 28 to it.
d2 = d + 28
If it’s really a Time object, then just like Mikkel posted you add
28.days to whatever Time object you have. (Time.now was just an
example.)
– James
I’m answering my own post.
This is what I wanted:
B3 = Date.new(2006, 4, 3) // Start date pulled from table
B4 = Date.new(2006, 10, 6) // Any random date entered by user
diff = B3 + ((B4 - B3) / 28).ceil * 28
diff.asctime // Produces “Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 2006”
Does rails has any functions to calcualte the day(monday, tuesday) from
the given date