Dateslices

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.

This project is based upon groupdate and follows a similar API.

The differences between the groupdate and dateslices are:

• dateslices supports sqlite3in addition to PostgreSQL & MySQL.
• dateslices has much less functionality.
• dateslices ignores timezones.
• dateslices is rails 4 only.
• dateslices uses rspecs for tests.

The reason that I wrote this is that I use sqlite in development, and wanted to make sure that I could test things locally. I didn't understand the test suite of groupdate, so I ended up rewriting it.

A walkthrough of how this code is written is available on my blog

Usage instructions below.

User.where( :created_at > 1.month.ago ).group_by_day

User.group_by_day( :created_at, "sum", "karma" )

Post.group_by_week( :updated_at, "avg", "comment_count")

These methods take three optional arguments:

1. column to group by, normally "created_at"
2. sql function to run, normally "count". Also "sum", "avg"
3. column to do the function on, normally "*"

• group_by_second

• group_by_minute

• group_by_hour

• group_by_day

• group_by_week

• group_by_month

• group_by_year

• group_by_hour_of_day

• group_by_day_of_week

• group_by_day_of_month

• group_by_month_of_year

The output format defaults to a Chartkick compatible hash of dates and values. If you wish to use the dateslices format, please add Dateslices.output_format = :dateslices to an initializer.

Rspec tests need to be run out of the spec/dummy directory, and you'll need to have a postgres and a mysql database named "dateslice_test" for them to succeed.