From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T03:06:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting current date

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:13 PM, laredotornado
<laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 11, 9:38 pm, "DanDiebolt.exe" <dandieb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>>
>> irb(main):005:0> Date.today.to_s
>> => "2008-09-11"
>>
>> Seehttp://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Date.html
>
> Thanks for this info and the link.  I couldn't find this on the linked
> page, but what is an expression to get the current date minus one
> month, in the same format as above?
>
>  - Dave

In IRB...

require 'date'
=> true
(Date.today << 1).to_s
=> 2008-8-12
#Be prepared for edge cases...
(Date.new(2008-3-31) << 1).to_s
=> 2008-2-29

Todd