Hi Josi, So do people want these methods? How frequently do you use time ranges?
I'd find the `surrounding`-methods useful for debugging in the console. I'll occasionally use a range to find incoming webhook events that arrived around the same time a buggy user was created. When I'm typing it, it does feel like it could be improved: # buggy user u = User.find(123) # Find webhook events that happened around the same time # the buggy user was created. events = WebhookEvent.where(created_at: (u.created_at - 2.minutes)..(u.created_at + 2.minutes)) My first reaction is I do prefer it with using `and_the_surrounding`: # Same query using proposed method: events = WebhookEvent.where(created_at: u.created_at.and_the_surrounding( 2.minutes)) Eliot On Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:56:02 UTC+1, Josi McClellan wrote: > > Hello, this is my first (very tiny) attempt to get involved. > > My thought is to supplement the #since / #ago family with methods that > return a Range. Durations and dates/times could each get three methods: one > for the future, one for the past, and one for both: > 2.weeks.following 1.year.ago > 2.weeks.preceding 1.year.ago > 2.weeks.surrounding 1.year.ago > 1.year.ago.and_the_following weeks: 2 > 1.year.ago.and_the_preceding weeks: 2 > 1.year.ago.and_the_surrounding weeks: 2 > > Also, infinite ranges will someday be universal. Currently endless (min..) > are in 2.6, and beginless (..max) are in development. The following > no-argument form will then be possible: > case updated_at > when 10.years.ago.and_the_preceding then #... > when 1.year.ago.and_the_preceding then #... > when 1.month.ago.and_the_preceding then #... > > Obviously implementing this is trivial since they'd just use #since/#ago > for durations and #advance for times/dates. So do people want these > methods? How frequently do you use time ranges? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
