Question

So in PHP I have some code that extracts the day, month and year as an integer with something like this:

// Grab the Date
    $date = date("mdy");
    $day = (int) substr($date, 2, 2);
    $month = (int) substr($date, 0, 2);
    $yr = (int) substr($date, 4);

I’d like to do the same in Ruby. And I thought I’d found the answer with

# Grab the Date
    now = Date.new(Time.now).to_date
    date = Date.parse(now)
    day = date.mday
    month = date.mon
    yr = date.year

I’ve tried variations on this theme and every time it fails with

private method `to_date’ called for Tue Aug 14 01:16:00 -0600 2012:Time (NoMethodError)

I’m sure the answer is somewhere on the web but I’m not putting the right question to Google because I haven’t found it. I’ve only been coding in Ruby off and on for a few months and I imagine it is something simple. So what am I missing?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you just want:

now = Time.now

day = now.mday

month = now.mon

yr = now.year

By the way, you can do that more cleanly, without the substr() operations, in PHP:

$date = new DateTime;

$day = (int) $date->format( 'j' );

$month = (int) $date->format( 'n' );

$year = (int) $date->format( 'Y' );