Create a datetime using strings in rails

Question

What I would like to do is to go from "2013", "December", "20" and to create 2013-12-20.

Does someone have an idea ? Thanks !

Marc-Alexandre Bérubé · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-13 12:46:55Z

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Rails provide nice converters in part of it's framework

2.1.2 :001 > "20 december 2013".to_date
 => Fri, 20 Dec 2013

answered Aug 13, 2014 at 12:46

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Nikhil Khullar · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-13 12:49:54Z

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For your required format you can use this bit for formatting:

strftime("The date is %y-%m-%d")

This can be called on any time object.

answered Aug 13, 2014 at 12:49

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Djafar Hodi-Zoda · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-13 13:35:34Z

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You can do this:

Date.new(2013, 12, 20)

You can read more about Date here

answered Aug 13, 2014 at 13:35

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shivam · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-13 14:10:27Z

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This is an extension to @Marc-Alexandre Bérubé 's answer to get your desired format:

"20 december 2013".to_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
# => "2013-12-20"

answered Aug 13, 2014 at 14:10

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