CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby
joeyk16
joeyk16

Reputation: 1415

Getting month from Date.today

How do you get the month as an integer from the below code

[email protected] (#<VouchersController:0x007ff453)> t = (Date.today + 5).to_s
=> "2015-12-01"
[email protected] (#<VouchersController:0x007ff453)> t.to_i
=> 2015
[email protected] (#<VouchersController:0x007ff453)>

I can get the year. But how do I get the month as an integer so this returns 12?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 41

Answers (1)

user513951
user513951

Reputation: 13612

The reason you're getting the year is only that you're converting the string "2015-12-01" to an integer.

When you use to_i on a Ruby string, it uses only leading digit characters, then throws away the rest of the string. When it reaches the first - character, it stops parsing as an integer and returns what it has so far: 2015.

In order to use the actual functionality of Date, don't use to_s to convert the object into a string.

require 'date'
t = Date.today + 5 # => #<Date: 2015-11-30 ((2457357j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
t.year             # => 2015
t.month            # => 11

Upvotes: 4

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