On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Jim Burgess wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a flight model.
> I want to find all flights with a specific arrival airport, a specific
> departure airport and which depart on a certain date.
> 
> My problem is that the departure date is a datetime column in the db and
> I wish to search this column by date (not datetime).
> 
> I have written the following:
> 
> @flights = Flight.find(:all, :conditions => ['arrival_airport_id = ? and
> departure_airport_id = ? and departure_datetime >= ? and
> departure_datetime < ?', @arrival_airport_id, @departure_airport_id,
> @date, @date+1])
> 
> This works but the code seems long and ugly.
> 
> Is this an acceptable way to do what I want, or can someone point me to
> a better, 'prettier' method?

You could replace "departure_datetime >= ? and departure_datetime < ?" with 
"departure_datetime BETWEEN ? AND ?"...

Doesn't help much though...


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