I have a method on my user model to calculate the user's age and return a human readable string. My user's can be between 1 month old and above so the returned string is different depending on if the person is "2 months old" or "1 year old" or "2 years and 3 months old".
I have reviewed a few SO posts to come to this solution. Is there anything I am missing? Leap years?
def age
dob = self.date_of_birth
# if a date of birth is not nil
if dob != nil
# get current date
now = Date.current
# has person had their birthday yet this year
had_birthday = ((now.month > dob.month || (now.month == dob.month && now.day >= dob.day)) ? true : false)
# if yes then subtract this year from birthday year, if not then also subtract 1 to get how many full years old they are
years = now.year - dob.year - (had_birthday ? 0 : 1)
# get the calendar month difference from birthdya calendar month and today's calendar month. if they have not had their birthdya yet then subtract the difference from 12
months = had_birthday ? now.month - dob.month : 12 - (now.month - dob.month)
# for under 1 year olds
if years == 0
return months > 1 ? months.to_s + " months old" : months.to_s + " month old"
# for 1 year olds
elsif years == 1
return months > 1 ? years.to_s + " year and " + months.to_s + " months old" : years.to_s + " year and " + months.to_s + " month old"
# for older than 1
else
return months > 1 ? years.to_s + " years and " + months.to_s + " months old" : years.to_s + " years and " + months.to_s + " month old"
end
# No date of birth saved so can not calculate age
else
return "No Date of Birth"
end
end