What is the best way to convert a Ruby string range to a Range object

Question

I have some Ruby code which takes dates on the command line in the format:

-d 20080101,20080201..20080229,20080301

I want to run for all da

Answer 1

assuming you want the range to iterate properly through months etc, try

require 'date'

ends = '20080201..20080229'.split('..').map{|d| Date.parse(d)}
(ends[0]..ends[1]).each do |d|
  p d.day
end