Search records between two dates - Ruby on Rails

Question

I am trying to create a search that returns records between two dates (today and a future date).

I can get it to return several records no problem if I use the following code in my model (film.rb):

def self.date_search(search_string)
    self.where("release_date >= ?", search_string  )

However, when I try something like the following, I receive syntax errors:

    def self.date_search(search_string)
       date = Date.today
       self.where("release_date = created_at > date.strftime("%F") AND created_at < ?  ", search_string  )

I am still very new to Ruby so any help sorting out my syntax and code would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Try:

def self.date_search(search_string)
  self.where({release_date: Time.now..search_string})
end

This will give you entries where release_date is between the current time and the search_string (inclusive of the search string since you use two dots(..), it would be exclusive of the search string if you used three dots (...)