Modifying a SQL query for use with 'will_paginate' in Ruby

Question

I have the following SQL query which I use to fetch some rows from a mySQL database :

SELECT code_ver, result FROM mastertest WHERE date >= DATE_SUB( (CURDATE()) , INTERVAL 90 DAY) ORDER BY date DESC;

This query gives me data from the past 90 days. Now I want to display the data of 10 days at a time in my html.erb page (view). I am aware that pagination can be done using 'will_paginate' and 'kaminari' gems. But I am not sure how to query the database with certain conditions as shown above.

Can someone help me with the code here?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '12 at 22:46

This is how you could construct that in ActiveRecord:

Mastertest.where('date >= ?', Time.now - 90.days ).order('date DESC').select("code_ver, result")

From here, you can either chain will_paginate or kaminari methods, or roll your own if you want. You may want to roll that query into a class method if you will be using it a lot:

class Mastertest
  def self.last_90_days
    where('date >= ?', Time.now - 90.days ).order('date DESC').select("code_ver, result")
  end

  ## here's a simple pagination example:
  def self.page(page,per_page)
    limit(per_page).offset((page - 1) * per_page)
  end

end

Mastertest.last_90_days.page(1,20) #=> [...]

Modifying a SQL query for use with 'will_paginate' in Ruby

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