http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:26:30 GMT DZone Snippets: activerecord code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5341 This shows how to find recent data from last hour, day, week, month, whatever <br /> <br /><code> <br />class Post < ActiveRecord::Base <br /> def self.find_latest(time = nil) <br /> r = %w( hour day week month year ) <br /> if r.include?(time) <br /> self.find :all, :conditions => ['created_at > ?', 1.send(time).ago] <br /> else <br /> self.find :all <br /> end <br /> end <br />end <br /> <br />Post.find_latest('day') <br />Post.find_latest('week') <br />Post.find_latest('year') <br /></code> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:34:36 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5341 ronin (Michał M)