I'm doing an app that has a very frequent need to compare dates. My code is littered with things like:
return if foo.date < 10.days.ago Each and every time I do one of these I have to stop and think it through to get the sense of the comparison right. "Let's see, recent dates are bigger than older dates, so if I want this to happen when the date on the left is longer ago than the date on the right..." You get the idea. I want to open up the date class and add a couple of methods to it like "is_more_recent_than" and "is_longer_ago_than", so I don't have to think about it anymore and so my code is more readable. There are two things I'm not sure of with this, when I define the method, what does the method def syntax look like? Maybe: def is_more_recent_than(right_hand_value) self > right_hand_value # just had to think about this for the last time! end and the other thing is, where can I put this such that it will be available from controllers, and from models and from views? do I have to put it in more than one place to have it be automatically available (without doing an include when I want to use it) everywhere? Maybe it needs to be in one of my Rails files instead of in my app project? thanks, jp -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
