How to get records created at the current month?

Question

I have a candidate which has_many votes.

I am trying to get the votes of a candidate that were created in the current month?

@candidate.votes.from_this_m         


        

Answer 1

You could use an ActiveRecord Association Extension:

#app/models/Candidate.rb
Class Candidate < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :votes do
       def from_this_month
           where("created_at > ? AND created_at < ?", Time.now.beginning_of_month, Time.now.end_of_month)
       end
   end
end

This should allow you to call @candidate.votes.from_this_month to return the required conditional data