From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T19:44:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert String to date

On 01/09/06, aidy <aidy.rutter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a string object
>
> "27/07/06"
>
> that is referenced in this variable: start_date
>
> what I want to do is convert this string into a date, and add a day to
> it.
>
> Something like this
>
>  start_date = start_date.to_d
>  end_date =   start_date + 1
>
>  but I cannot see a to_date method. Could anyone please help?

require 'date'
date = Date.strptime(start_date, '%d/%m/%y')
date.year # => 2006
date.month # => 7
date.mday # => 27
(date + 1).mday # => 28

Paul.