From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-03T17:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Countdown dates in Ruby

Hi,

You can use the Date class from the standard library. It has all the 
necessary methods:

- Date.parse to create a Date object from a string
- date#<=>, so that Dates can be compared
- date#downto to iterate over the timespan (in days) between two dates

#------------------------------
require 'date'

raw_dates = ['2012-06-03', '2011-12-22']

date_old, date_new =
  raw_dates.map{|str| Date.parse str}.sort

date_new.downto date_old do |date|
  puts date.strftime '%d-%m-%Y'
end
#------------------------------

See
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html
for the documentation.

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