Get person's age in Ruby

Question

I\'d like to get a person\'s age from its birthday. now - birthday / 365 doesn\'t work, because some years have 366 days. I came up with the following code:

Answer 1

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I like @philnash's solution, but the conditional could be compacter. What that boolean expression does is comparing [month, day] pairs using lexicographic order, so one could just use ruby's string comparison instead:

def age(dob)
  now = Date.today
  now.year - dob.year - (now.strftime('%m%d') < dob.strftime('%m%d') ? 1 : 0)
end