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MorroKombat
MorroKombat

Reputation: 3

Rails/Ruby - Format string into Date with locale

Is there a way in rails with localize or in plain ruby with Date.strptime to convert a string into a date but with a specific months locales?

For example, I have the following string -> '5 abr 19' where abr == april but in spanish, and I need it to convert it to a Date object.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 315

Answers (1)

arieljuod
arieljuod

Reputation: 15838

If you have the date month in english, you can use Date.strptime with this format:

date_str = '5 apr 19'
date = Date.strptime(date_str, '%d %b %y')

Since that method only accepts english I would just translate the month, only a few months changes:

date_str = '5 abr 19'

months = {'ene' => 'jan', 'abr' => 'apr', 'ago' => 'aug', 'dic' => 'dec'}    
date_str_aux = date_str.gsub(/ene|abr|ago|dic/, months) # only replace the months that should be translated

date = Date.strptime(date_str_aux, '%d %b %y')

Upvotes: 1

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