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Groupdate

The simplest way to group by:

  • day
  • week
  • month
  • day of the week
  • hour of the day
  • and more (complete list at bottom)

:tada: Time zones supported!! the best part

:cake: Get the entire series - the other best part

Works with Rails 3.0+

Supports PostgreSQL and MySQL

Build Status

:cupid: Goes hand in hand with Chartkick

Get Started

User.group_by_day(:created_at).count
# {
#   2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC => 50,
#   2013-04-17 00:00:00 UTC => 100,
#   2013-04-18 00:00:00 UTC => 34
# }

Task.group_by_month(:updated_at).count
# {
#   2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC => 84,
#   2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC => 23,
#   2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC => 44
# }

Goal.group_by_year(:accomplished_at).count
# {
#   2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC => 7,
#   2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC => 11,
#   2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC => 3
# }

Results are returned in ascending order, so no need to sort.

The default time zone is Time.zone. Pass a time zone with:

User.group_by_week(:created_at, time_zone: "Pacific Time (US & Canada)").count
# {
#   2013-03-03 08:00:00 UTC => 80,
#   2013-03-10 08:00:00 UTC => 70,
#   2013-03-17 07:00:00 UTC => 54
# }

# equivalently
time_zone = ActiveSupport::TimeZone["Pacific Time (US & Canada)"]
User.group_by_week(:created_at, time_zone: time_zone).count

Note: Weeks start on Sunday by default.

You can also group by the day of the week or hour of the day.

# day of the week
User.group_by_day_of_week(:created_at).count
# {
#   0 => 54, # Sunday
#   1 => 2,  # Monday
#   ...
#   6 => 3   # Saturday
# }

# hour of the day
User.group_by_hour_of_day(:created_at).count
# {
#   0 => 34,
#   1 => 61,
#   ...
#   23 => 12
# }

Works with all aggregate functions, like average, minimum, and maximum.

Request.group_by_minute(:started_at).average(:request_time)

Customize

You can change the day weeks start with:

User.group_by_week(:created_at, week_start: :mon) # first three letters of day

# change globally
Groupdate.week_start = :mon

You can change the hour days start with:

User.group_by_day(:created_at, day_start: 2) # 2 am - 2 am

# change globally
Groupdate.day_start = 2

Works with day, week, month, year and hour_of_day.

The default time zone is Time.zone. To change this, use:

Groupdate.time_zone = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)"

To return an ActiveRecord::Relation instead of a Groupdate::Series, use:

User.group_by_day(:created_at, series: false)

Note: Results will be unordered, and days with no records will not appear.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'groupdate'

For MySQL

Time zone support must be installed on the server.

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql

For JRuby

Use the master version of your JDBC adapter. You will get incorrect results for versions before this commit.

# postgresql
gem "activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter", :github => "jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter"

# mysql
gem "activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter", :github => "jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter"

Complete list

group_by_?

  • second
  • minute
  • hour
  • day
  • week
  • month
  • year
  • hour_of_day
  • day_of_week

History

View the changelog

Groupdate follows Semantic Versioning

Contributing

Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you can help: