Yup, that's how we went with implementing this one.  I was just curious if
there's something that I'm missing. Thanks Pat!

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry I've not responded to this sooner Jim. It's not the easiest problem
> to figure out, having ranges on both sides... you'll want some range filters
> on both attributes, I guess.
>
> Probably useful to have some psuedo-max/min dates. Min is easy - the epoch
> (1/1/1970). Max, well, I guess that's up to you. Maybe 1/1/2038? 32-bit
> integer timestamps can't get much bigger than that.
>
> :with => {
>  :available_from => min..Date.today,
>  :available_till => Date.tomorrow..max
> }
>
> I think that might work, but definitely give it some solid testing.
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 16/06/2010, at 4:31 PM, Jim Ruther Nill wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have two columns, available_from and available_till and I want to
> filter the search results from a date given by the user.
> >
> > I have in my define_index block
> >
> > has 'DATE(available_from)', :as => :check_in, :type => :datetime
> > has 'DATE(available_till)', :as => :check_out, :type => :datetime
> >
> > So how do I search if the user enters
> >
> > checkin: Date.today
> > checkout: Date.tomorrow
> >
> > so that Date.today..Date.tomorrow is inside
> available_from..available_till
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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