On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:58:05PM -0500, Tim Pope wrote:
> This seems like such an obvious idea that I'm having trouble believing
> I'm the first to think of it. Why not take ranges containing
> Float::INFINITY and translate them to the appropriate greater than or
> less than comparisons? Example:
>
> class Person
> scope :voters, -> { where(born_on: (-Float::INFINITY..18.years.ago)) }
> end
>
> This would generate something along the lines of "WHERE people.born_on
> <= '1995-02-19'".
>
> A proof of concept implementation was easy to knock out:
>
> https://github.com/tpope/rails/commit/b98545a930546854ddf401edfaad4a3a4860aeff
>
> This seems like a intuitive, unobtrusive way to make some comparison
> operators available without dropping down to SQL. Tell me why I'm
> wrong.
You're wrong because you didn't add any tests. ;-)
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