Question

=> #<Gig id: 59, date: "2012-06-01 00:00:00", title: "Awesome Record", url: "http://someurl.com", body: nil, reply_email: nil, industry_id: nil, created_at: "2012-06-03 03:06:45", updated_at: "2012-06-03 03:06:45"> 


1.9.2-p0 :046 > Gig.where(:date => "2012-06-01 00:00:00")
  Gig Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "gigs".* FROM "gigs" WHERE "gigs"."date" = '2012-06-01 00:00:00'
 => [] 
1.9.2-p0 :043 > Gig.where(:date => "2012-06-01")
  Gig Load (0.3ms)  SELECT "gigs".* FROM "gigs" WHERE "gigs"."date" = '2012-06-01'
 => [] 
1.9.2-p0 :044 > Gig.where(:date => "June 01")
  Gig Load (0.6ms)  SELECT "gigs".* FROM "gigs" WHERE "gigs"."date" = 'June 01'
 => [] 
1.9.2-p0 :045 > Gig.where(:date => "June 1")
  Gig Load (32.9ms)  SELECT "gigs".* FROM "gigs" WHERE "gigs"."date" = 'June 1'
 => [] 

All I am trying to do is find the records in this table that have a specific ‘date’ (or even records that fall within a date range). But the basic where clause above won’t work.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit 1

I outputted the date as string, via to_s and this is the output:

d.date
 => Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 UTC +00:00 
1.9.2-p0 :079 > d.date.to_s
 => "2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC" 

Not sure if that will help….but I even tried including those strings as the condition of the where clause and it still returns an empty array.

Answer 1

Try these:

Gig.where(:date => "2012-06-01 00:00:00 +00.00")
Gig.where("date like '2012-06-01%'")
Gig.where("DATE(date) = '2012-06-01'")