Calculate number of months difference between two dates

Rails
1

hi,

Is there an easy way of calculating the difference in months between two
dates in a controller.

thanks

2

ben wrote:

hi,

Is there an easy way of calculating the difference in months between two
dates in a controller.

thanks

well this is how I have done it, just out of interest, im going to need
to build a few more date functions like this, how would I go about
creating a plugin to include this?

        pLoopDate = Date.new(2005,10,1)
        pLoopDateMax = Date.new(2006, 10, 1)

        while pLoopDate <= pLoopDateMax
            pNumberOfMonths = pNumberOfMonths + 1
            if pLoopDate.month == 12
                pLoopDate = Date.new((pLoopDate.year+1),1,1)
            else
                pLoopDate =

Date.new(pLoopDate.year,(pLoopDate.month+1),1)
end
end

3

On 7/7/06, ben [email protected] wrote:

hi,

Is there an easy way of calculating the difference in months between two
dates in a controller.

You could do (date2.year12+date2.month) - (date1.year12+date1.month).

/ CJ

4

Use the date helper for this date diff issues,
ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper
Check out distance_of_time_in_words