title: Rails Date compared to Date.today
body: <p>I have a birth_date variable in the Date format. I want to compare it to Date.today as shown below. The problem is it is coming back false because it wants to compare the year as well. It is a birthday so I don't care about the year just trying to see if birth_date (month and day) is equal to Date.today.day.month.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <pre><code>bdays = Soldier.find(:all, :conditions =&gt; ["birth_date LIKE ?", Date.today] )
  </code></pre>