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gdonald on 09/27/06

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Rails days between dates

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def days_between(date1, date2)
  yyyy1,mm1,dd1 = $3, $1, $2 if date1 =~ /(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/
  date1_ts = Time.mktime(yyyy1,mm1,dd1).tv_sec
  yyyy2,mm2,dd2 = $3, $1, $2 if date2 =~ /(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)/
  date2_ts = Time.mktime(yyyy2,mm2,dd2).tv_sec
  (date2_ts - date1_ts)/60/60/24
end

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Posted By: angryamoeba on November 2, 2006

Or you can use normal ruby:

today = Date.today tomorrow = Date.today+1

tomorrow-today => 1

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