Follow below code for inquiring ones in ActiveRecord between two dates: YourModel.find(:date => somenumber.days.ago..Date.today) # or YourModel.find(:created_at => yourNumber.years.ago..Date.today) # or YourModel.find(:updated_at => yourVariable.months.ago..Date.yesterday) Aboved code are modified from a post at stackoverflow.com. Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2381718/rails-activerecord-date-between