Question

I have one column named bill_date with data type as timestamp without time zone.

Now i want to search a record with the bill_date. The user will enter date as like 2012-12-09.

I want to use Bill.find_by_bill_date(2012-12-09).

The above one will not give result. Because We have to do typecasting. Please give me some suggestions. I don’t want to use where clause or conditions. I want to use find_by only.

Answer 1

You could just add a method to your Bill class like this:

def self.find_by_bill_date(date)
  where("DATE(bill_date) = DATE(?)", date).first
end

I know you said you didn’t want to use where clauses, but the dynamic finder methods (find_by_*) do the exact same thing, anyway.