Posts tagged “scopes” — Sean Behan

Jun 2011 · 1 min read

Rails Find All by Birthday: How to Find Upcoming Birthdays with ActiveRecord

There are a few ways to solve this problem. However, I think the easiest is to cache the day of the year that the user is born on as an integer. If stored alongside the timestamp we can quickly get...

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May 2011 · 1 min read

Reusing Scopes (Formerly Named_scope) In Rails 3

You can easily chain scopes together in your models. class Article < ActiveRecord::Base scope :ordered, order('position ASC') scope :published, ordered.where('published = ?', true) scope...

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