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Creating a date with Ruby (See related posts)

This example creates a date variable which represents 22nd March 2008.
  require 'date'
  d1 = Date.new(y=2008,m=3,d=22)
  puts d1

output: 2008-03-22
to ruby date new create by jrobertson on Sat Dec 22 16:41:57 -0500 2007

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Caius posts on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:19
You can also use Date#parse to turn a string into a date object.

require 'date'
d1 = Date.new(y=2008,m=3,d=22)
d2 = Date.parse("22 march 2008")
puts d1 # => 2008-03-22
puts d2 # => 2008-03-22

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