Rails query timestamp between two hours

Question

I have a problem in Ruby on Rails, where I need to allow a user to set a two time columns, and then query all instances of that model that have the current time within the h

Answer 1

Something like this should work (assuming MySQL):

Model.where("TIME(created_at) BETWEEN '07:00:00' AND '09:00:00'")

You can convert a Time instance to this format with:

Time.now.strftime("%T") #=> "23:02:25"

If the start time is larger than the end time you could reverse the logic, so instead of:

Model.where("TIME(created_at) BETWEEN '23:00:00' AND '01:59:59'")

You could use:

Model.where("TIME(created_at) NOT BETWEEN '02:00:00' AND '22:59:59'")

Answer 2

How you solve this problem will depend on what database you're using b/c as far as I'm aware there aren't any ActiveRecord helpers for this type of operation. But there are date functions that should help you figure this out

Postgres Date functions

Mysql Date functions

So for example, in Postgres you might try

extract(hour from timestamp 'a') BETWEEN (extract(hour from timestamp  'b') AND extract(hour from timestamp 'c'))

Answer 3

You might be looking for something like

Model.where("starts_at >= ? AND ends_at =< ?", Time.current, Time.current)

Alternatively, you can use placeholder conditions to make the query more concise.

Client.where("created_at >= :start_date AND created_at <= :end_date", {start_date: params[:start_date], end_date: params[:end_date]})