Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>
> It's not a good idea to store dates in the DB as strings. You should
> store dates as dates in the DB. SQL has date handling functions that
> you can use, so what you might want is something like :conditions =>
> ['day(b_date) = :day and month(b_date) = :month', {:day =>
> Date.today.day, :month => Date.today.month}] .
>
Marnen is right, mind you. If you store a year with it, you have access
to all the Rails date manipulation methods, as well as those of the
database. It's better practice, and more convenient.
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