How to add 10 days to current time in Rails

Question

I tried doing something like   Time now   5 days   but that doesn t work  even though I vaguely remember seeing  and being very impressed  with being able to do something like 2 years etc    How do I do that in Rails 3

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Use   Time now   10 days   or even  10 days from now   Both definitely work  Are you sure you re in Rails and not just Ruby   If you definitely are in Rails  where are you trying to run this from  Note that Active Support has to be loaded

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days  years  etc   are part of Active Support  So this won t work in irb  but it should work in rails console

User · Answer

Try this on Ruby  It will return a new date time the specified number of days in the future  DateTime now days since 10

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This definitely works and I use this wherever I need to add days to the current date  Date today   5

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Try this on Rails  Time new   10 days    Try this on Ruby  require  date  DateTime now next day 10  to time

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Some other options  just for reference  -10 days ago   Available in Rails 4 DateTime now days ago -10    Just list out all options I know    1  Time now   10 days  2  10 days from now  3  -10 days ago  4  DateTime now days ago -10   5  Date today   10   So now  what is the difference between them if we care about the timezone     1  4  With system timezone  2  3  With config timezone of your Rails app  5  Date only no time included in result

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