From: srinsriram@...
Date: 2007-04-07T02:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding last date

On Apr 6, 6:05 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 06.04.2007 11:00, Dipesh Batheja wrote:> Hi,
> > Is there any instance method in Ruby for Date type, to find previous
> > date. For example if I have date - "04/05/07" in an object "date", then
> > something like "date.previous" returns me date - "04/04/07".
>
> $ irb -r date
> irb(main):002:0> Date.today.to_s
> => "2007-04-06"
> irb(main):003:0> (Date.today - 1).to_s
> => "2007-04-05"
> irb(main):004:0>
>
>         robert

I just noticed that whitespace near the -1 makes a difference in the
evaluation in irb. is this expected?

irb(main):006:0> (Date.today -1).to_s
=> "2007-04-06"

irb(main):008:0> (Date.today - 1).to_s
=> "2007-04-05"