Quick question:
Lets say I have a date as a string such as:
date = '2006-08-24'
Whats the easiest way to change that to a date object and so things like this:
date.yesterday # which should be 2006-08-24
or
date.tomorrow # should be 2006-08-25
or say
date = '2006-08-31'
date.tomorrow # which should be 2006-09-01
Basically I need to be able to find the previous and next day, for any date. I know this is probably a simple answer but thanks for any help/advice in advance
Hi Marston,
Marston wrote:
Lets say I have a date as a string such as:
date = '2006-08-24'
Whats the easiest way to change that to a date object
In Ruby, things are how they behave; not how they're declared. Have you tried to treat 'date' as a Date object? I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Check out the to_date at http://api.rubyonrails.org/, then fire up script/console and see what you get when you do stuff like new_date = date +1.
hth, Bill
Quick question:
Lets say I have a date as a string such as:
date = '2006-08-24'
Whats the easiest way to change that to a date object and so things like this:
date.yesterday # which should be 2006-08-24
or
date.tomorrow # should be 2006-08-25
or say
date = '2006-08-31'
date.tomorrow # which should be 2006-09-01
Basically I need to be able to find the previous and next day, for any date. I know this is probably a simple answer but thanks for any help/advice in advance
.to_time
./script/console Loading development environment.
date = '2006-08-24'.to_time
=> Thu Aug 24 00:00:00 UTC 2006
date.yesterday
=> Wed Aug 23 00:00:00 UTC 2006
date.tomorrow
=> Fri Aug 25 00:00:00 UTC 2006
date.years_since 2
=> Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 UTC 2008
date = '2006-08-31'.to_time
=> Thu Aug 31 00:00:00 UTC 2006
date.tomorrow
=> Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Regards, Rimantas
Thanks a bunch guys, exactly what I needed.