find record by date from DB tables that is not indexed by date column (for ActiveRecord)

Caution: not for production app. for only human operation help.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'find_near_date'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install find_near_date

app/models/foo.rb

class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
end

lib/pry_helper.rb

require "find_near_date"

class Foo
  extend FindNearDate
end

in pry

> require "lib/pry_helper"
> foo_10days_ago = Foo.find_near_date(10.days.ago, :updated_at, period: 1.day)

etc.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Narazaka/find_near_date.

This is released under the Zlib License