From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2011-09-16T00:48:43+09:00
Subject: Re: calculating days to go using date class-help needed

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:16 AM, joe c. <joec54@gmail.com> wrote:

> require 'date'
#today = DateTime.now

DateTime.now.to_date

> birthday = Date.new(2011, 10, 10)
# days_to_go = today-birthday

days_to_go = birthday - today # the future is built with bigger numbers :-)

> puts "Days to go: "+days_to_go.to_s
>
> It prints a number like -52632699/21600000

puts days_to_go.class #=> Rational

> How do I get it to show true number of days, i.e. a number like 25

puts "Days to go: #{days_to_go.to_i}"


HTH,
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