From: Todd <toddkennethbenson@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T03:57:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordinal Date String to Standard Date String for a Beginner


David Boyd wrote:
> Botp, Todd,
>  Thanks. Since I had already parsed the ordinal date's year and day to get
> them in string sortable order, I just had to take your examples and do this:
> require 'date' ... od = Date.ordinal (strYear.to_i, strOrdn.to_i) and then
> od.to_s gives the sortable (and readable) yyyy-mm-dd string.
>  Wow, Ruby is powerful, but the documentation on Date (and perhaps other gem
> filled libraries) is hard for a beginner to grok. I found Date's ordinal
> with a Google search, which gave me the built-in documentation, but no
> examples. So, if I need at least the APIs for a library such as Date I use
> "ri"?

Yeah, no examples.  I guess they just expect us to learn it from them
directly :)

Todd