From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcomNOSPAM@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T01:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating the age given DOB

Deniz Dogan wrote:
> Brian Adkins wrote:
>> Deniz Dogan wrote:
>>> Hello, fellow rubyists.
>>>
>>> I have a problem. I'm trying to write a simple program which 
>>> calculates the age of a person given the person's date of birth in an 
>>> instance of a Date class. I have no idea what is the best way to do 
>>> this. I don't feel like using any ugly "hacks" to do it, and I wonder 
>>> if there is any good (perhaps mathematical) algorithm out there to 
>>> solve the problem.
>>>
>>> --Deniz Dogan
>>
>>
>> (DateTime.now - birthdate) / 365.25
> 
> And this would work with Date objects?

Why don't you give it a try?