From: ideal one <lists@...>
Date: 2012-10-06T06:01:13+09:00
Subject: Ruby range - verify if date lies between two specified dates

Hi All,
    I came across some issue in verifying if a date lies between two
specified dates.

now = Date.today
today = now.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
last_Seven_Days = (now - 7).strftime('%d-%b-%Y')

As per above, i am calculating today's date and previous seven days and
putting in format (ex: 05-Oct-2012)

Next I am getting a date from my screen Webpage(getText) and it's stored
as a string 'initial_date'

ui_date = '2012-10-01'
initial_date = Date.parse ui_date
initial_date = initial_date.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
puts initial_date => result in 01-Oct-2012

range = (today..last_Seven_Days)
I wanted of find if '01-Oct-2012' falls between the range.
range === last_date => sometimes comes as TRUE sometimes as FALSE

I dunno whether I am properly comparing dates or Strings..!!
any better way and stable way to do this.

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