Rails groupdate gem pg error - ruby-on-rails-3

I have a Rails 3.2.14 app where I'm trying to use the chartkick and groupdate gem to generate some charts. I've installed both gems, and I'm trying to do some test queries from the console on my Call model.
Call.group_by_day(:created_at)
I raise an exception and get the following error:
Call Load (8.8ms) SELECT "calls".* FROM "calls" WHERE (created_at IS NOT NULL) GROUP BY (DATE_TRUNC('week', (created_at::timestamptz - INTERVAL '6 day' - INTERVAL '0' hour) AT TIME ZONE 'America/Chicago') + INTERVAL '6 day' + INTERVAL '0' hour) AT TIME ZONE 'America/Chicago'
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::Error: ERROR: column "calls.id" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function
LINE 1: SELECT "calls".* FROM "calls" WHERE (created_at IS NOT NULL...
^
: SELECT "calls".* FROM "calls" WHERE (created_at IS NOT NULL) GROUP BY (DATE_TRUNC('week', (created_at::timestamptz - INTERVAL '6 day' - INTERVAL '0' hour) AT TIME ZONE 'America/Chicago') + INTERVAL '6 day' + INTERVAL '0' hour) AT TIME ZONE 'America/Chicago
Is there something I'm supposed to do to make this work? Is there some sort of scope I need to create to make this work? I'm new to the gems so any help would be appreciated.

Apparently I wasn't calling this correctly.
I needed to call Call.group_by_day(:created_at).count to make this work.

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Thanks in advance
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date_trunc(day, timestamp) removes the time component.
The second part of the comparison is different. The first version returns any time on the current day.
The second version only returns midnight on the current day.
Incidentally, I would recommend:
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Below is the query:
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select *
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where username in ('akhil') and between (now() ::timestamp and now() - interval '1 day'::timestamp)
Getting error in this line .
Error - cannot cast type interval to timestamp without time zone .
You don't need the second cast. You need a column name. Something like this:
select *
from #####
where username in ('akhil') and
<some date column> >= now() - interval '1 day' and
<some date column> < now();
the error is in the second cast
now() - interval '1 day'::timestamp
is interprested as.
now() - (interval '1 day')::timestamp
when you actually mean
(now() - interval '1 day')::timestamp
or possibly you mean
now()::timestamp - interval '1 day'
both are valid, but the the result you'll get when daylight saving starts or stops is different (hint interval '1 day' is the same as interval '24 hours' in the first)
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I'm using Arels for creating query. In this query, I use generate_series function. Here is my code:
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I try to shorter my code for testing:
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The problem is same. Please tell me how can I fix this problem.
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def generate_series
Arel::Nodes::NamedFunction.new('GENERATE_SERIES',
[start_date, end_date, Arel::Nodes.build_quoted('1 day')]
)
end
The advantage of this is that you don't have to remember to include and manually escape quotes like you do with Arel::Nodes::SqlLiteral.
Your last parameter should be an Arel::Nodes. So you should wrap 1 day into an Arel::Nodes:SqlLiteral. Here is updated code:
def generate_series
Arel::Nodes::NamedFunction.new('GENERATE_SERIES',
[start_date, end_date, Arel::Nodes::SqlLiteral.new('\'1 day\'')]
)
end
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GENERATE_SERIES(start, stop, 1 day)
But true query should be:
GENERATE_SERIES(start, stop, '1 day')