How to create “Upcoming birthdays” module in Rails?

Question

I have a table \"users\" with a column \"date_of_birth\" (DATE format with day, month, year). In frontend I need to list 5 upcoming birthdays.

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Answer 1

Thanks to this post in my rails 3 app i use:

 u = User.where("strftime('%m%d', date_of_birth) = ?", Date.today.strftime('%m%d'))

Update:

To use this with Postgresql:

u = User.where("extract(month from date_of_birth) = ? AND extract(day from date_of_birth) = ?", Date.today.strftime('%m'), Date.today.strftime('%d'))