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

If you don't care about a day or two, this would be shorter and pretty self-explanitory.

(Time.now - Time.gm(1986, 1, 27).to_i).year - 1970