How to group by day archives on rails blog? - ruby-on-rails

I am new to rails, just finished Michael Hartl's tutorial.
I am creating a small blog as my first app, I am looking to sort all the homepage blog posts and group them by.
example: TODAY and all today's post...below that YESTERDAY and yesterday's posts, etc.
I see there is a method called group_by but can't figure out how to implement it
Can someone help?
See many people are looking for such a solution online.
Thanks,
Adam

There's an awesome gem for this groupdate, try it out, a sample code below
Blog.group_by_day(:created_at)
https://github.com/ankane/groupdate

You can use group_by
posts = posts.group_by{|post|
case post.created_at
when 0.days.ago..1.day.ago
"Today"
when 1.day.ago..2.days.ago
"Yesterday"
when 1.week.ago..2.weeks.ago
"Last week"
when 2.weeks.ago..3.weeks.ago
"2 weeks ago"
when 1.month.ago..2.months.ago
"Last month"
else
"Older"
end
}
EDIT
Above code will return you as Hash, in view
#posts = {"Older"=>[#<Contact id: 1, name: "sontya", email: "montya#mailinator.com", comments: "hi there", created_at: "2015-03-20
16:46:52", updated_at: "2015-03-20 16:46:52">, #<Contact id: 2, name: "faruk", email: "faruk#dispostable.com", comments: "hi there", created_at:
"2015-03-23 18:17:05", updated_at: "2015-03-23 18:17:05">], "Yesterday" => [#<Contact id: 1, name: "sontya", email:
"montya#mailinator.com", comments: "hi there", created_at: "2015-03-20 16:46:52", updated_at: "2015-03-20 16:46:52">, #<Contact id: 2, name:
"faruk", email: "faruk#dispostable.com", comments: "hi there", created_at: "2015-03-23 18:17:05", updated_at: "2015-03-23 18:17:05">]}
similar to this with your data, then
in view, loop through the Hash
<% #posts.each do |k,v| %>
<tr>
<td><%=k%></td>
</tr>
<% v.each do |post| %>
<tr>
<td><%=post.name%></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
<% end %>

I think using a database level group isn't correct, because it's usually used with sum or count or something like that, if you don't use any of those functions that applies on groups you'll end up with only one post for each group, which is in your case one post for each day, I think you should just select all and group them into arrays and loop in the view
posts = Post.some_home_page_query.order(:created_at)
#grouped_posts = posts.chunk{ |x| x.created_at.to_date }
# you can replace the block passed to chunk with whatever you
# see fit for your own case
In the view you could do something like this
- #grouped_posts.each |date, posts|
= "Posts for #{date.some_formatting}"
- posts.each do |post|
= render post # or whatever you want

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