Re: [Rails] Re: Retrieve duration (in string format) from database and convert to Ruby syntax for calculation

But not all months are 2592000 seconds long.....some are shorter and some are longer....
If you have a Date of 1 Jan and add 1.month to it you will get 1 Feb which is 31 days later.  If you have 1 Feb and you add 1.month you will get 1 Mar which is 28 or 29 days later.

You could just store the value as x so you could do Time.now + x.month

Norm

On 09/20/2013 01:47 AM, Raj Kumar wrote:

I don't think this is good idea. 1.month.to_i will return in seconds as 2592000. you can store this and while fetching you can use it as it is

Time.now + 2592000

On Friday, 20 September 2013 03:30:16 UTC-4, Fai Wong wrote:

If I store 1.month as a string in the database, how do I convert "1.month" into 1.month?

This way I can use the "1.month" value stored in database to perform the following calculation.

Time.now + 1.month 

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