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mr. jman
mr. jman

Reputation: 121

Rails: Calculate time using time identifier stored in database as "string"

I would like to calculate future dates like this:

Date.today + 1.year
Date.today + 1.month

To determine, if the future date needs to be one month or one year into the future I request the duration from a database. The duration value is saved as a string. 

end_date = Date.today + 1.Duration.find(order.duration_id).duration

I believe that the above code executes as follows:

Date.today + 1."year" #the quotes cause an error

How do I remove the quotes?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (1)

BananaNeil
BananaNeil

Reputation: 10762

In rails, the way 1.year works, is :year is an instance method on 1. In ruby, to evaluate an arbitrary method on an object, you just use send('method_name') or send(:method_name)

If you have your duration as a string, you can use :send to evaluate the actual duration:

duration = "year"
1.send(duration) == 1.year

Upvotes: 2

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