[ActiveSupport] Add Range Methods to Duration and Time/Date

Hi Josi,

So do people want these methods? How frequently do you use time ranges?

I’d find the surrounding-methods useful for debugging in the console.

I’ll occasionally use a range to find incoming webhook events that arrived around the same time a buggy user was created. When I’m typing it, it does feel like it could be improved:

buggy user

u = User.find(123)

Find webhook events that happened around the same time

the buggy user was created.

events = WebhookEvent.where(created_at: (u.created_at - 2.minutes)…(u.created_at + 2.minutes))

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My first reaction is I do prefer it with using and_the_surrounding:

Same query using proposed method:

events = WebhookEvent.where(created_at: u.created_at.and_the_surrounding(2.minutes))

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Eliot