mas o menos

Everyone seems to trip up when it comes to #< and #> and dates and times.

  def recent
    if published_on > 1.week.ago
      # blah
    end
  end

  def old
    if published_on < 1.week.ago
      # blah
    end
  end

Nobody thinks of dates and times as numbers, so its hard to do comparisons on them quickly like you would with numbers. So lets add 2 methods to our dates and times.

  def after?(other)
    self > other
  end

  def before?(other)
    self < other
  end

  def recent
    if published_on.after?(1.week.ago)
      # blah
    end
  end

  def old
    if published_on.before?(1.week.ago)
      # blah
    end
  end

Luckily our “good friends” over at dzone have already a “real solid” impl of these 2 queries. LEFT_SIDE_LATER!

..in other news…