On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:56 PM, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 15 April 2011 19:41, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote: >> > This cant be so hard but feeling rather annoyed with myself for thinking >> I >> > can do the following: >> > >> > DateTime.now + 1.day >> > >> > Is there any easy way to do this? >> >> I prefer to use .since and .ago: >> >> DateTime.now.since(1.day) >> > > Hmmm, I like the idea but getting an error - I am in rails console (Ruby > 1.8.7)... but in Ruby 1.9.2 the method is present. Any idea how to aproach > this problem in 1.8.7? > > ruby-1.8.7-p330 :020 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) > NoMethodError: undefined method `since' for #<DateTime > 2011-04-15T13:52:34-05:00> > > ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > DateTime.now.since(1.day) > => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:55:22 -0500 > > Which version of ActiveSupport are you running? I have ruby 1.8.7 installed and ActiveSupport 2.3.11. I was able to run your first examples and get the correct output as well as run Micheal's examples and get the correct output. >> DateTime.now => Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:00:29 -0500 >> DateTime.now + 1.day => Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:32 -0500 >> DateTime.now.since(1.day) => Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:00:34 -0500 B. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
