How to calculate days passed since date

Question

I have a record that has a field created_at with the following format: created_at: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:31:27 UTC +00:00.

I can compare it against specific days doing something like: created_at >= 5.days.ago.

Is there a simple way to calculate how many days have passed since a date object like created_at without iterating over n.days.ago?

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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From "Count number of days between two dates" and assuming that created_at returns a Date object, it seems like you can use:

(Time.current.to_date - Record.created_at).to_i

to get the difference in days

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

Community

answered Jan 29 '16 at 00:10

ForgetfulFellow

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '16 at 05:15

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Date.today.downto(Record.created_at).count

answered Jan 30 '16 at 05:15

sbs

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '20 at 11:48

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(Time.current.to_date - Record.created_at.to_date).to_i

As the returned value from Record.created_at is a string, you need to convert it to date as shown above

answered Oct 18 '20 at 11:48

FDI

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