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Pabi
Pabi

Reputation: 994

Check if a post was posted after a certain date

I need to find a way to check if a post was posted after a certain date. I know I can use Time.parse to convert the date stored in the database under the column created_at to a ruby formated date. However from there on I am stuck.

I need to check if the date is newer than the most recent passed Monday at midnight. I know I can use regular comparative elements such as > and <= to compare dates. So I just need to find a way get the the date of the most recent Monday that has already passed.

Please let me know if anything is not clear enough.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 299

Answers (1)

Zoran
Zoran

Reputation: 4226

To get the date of the most recent Monday that has already passed, you could do something like this:

Date.today.beginning_of_week(:monday)
# => Mon, Aug 10 2015

You can use this to check if the provided date is more recent than the previously passed Monday, or any day of the week really:

def is_more_recent(date, day)
  date > Date.today.beginning_of_week(day.to_sym)
end

is_more_recent(Date.today, :monday)
# => true

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 2

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