On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Aaron Patterson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy before sorting those out. I'll take
this as a vote of confidence.

Testing led me to ARel as the more natural destination:

https://github.com/tpope/arel/tree/infinity-ranges

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