How to add 10 days to current time in Rails

days, years, etc., are part of Active Support, So this won't work in irb, but it should work in rails console.

Use

Time.now + 10.days

or even

10.days.from_now

Both definitely work. Are you sure you're in Rails and not just Ruby?

If you definitely are in Rails, where are you trying to run this from? Note that Active Support has to be loaded.

Some other options, just for reference

-10.days.ago
# Available in Rails 4
DateTime.now.days_ago(-10)

Just list out all options I know:

[1] Time.now + 10.days
[2] 10.days.from_now
[3] -10.days.ago
[4] DateTime.now.days_ago(-10)
[5] Date.today + 10

So now, what is the difference between them if we care about the timezone:

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