How to check if a string is a valid date

Question

I have a string: \"31-02-2010\" and want to check whether or not it is a valid date. What is the best way to do it?

I need a method which which returns

Answer 1

Method:

require 'date'
def is_date_valid?(d)
  Date.valid_date? *"#{Date.strptime(d,"%m/%d/%Y")}".split('-').map(&:to_i) rescue nil
end

Usage:

config[:dates].split(",").all? { |x| is_date_valid?(x)}

This returns true or false if config[:dates] = "12/10/2012,05/09/1520"