Convert a string date format from “17-Nov-2011” to “11/17/11”

Question

I have this code that converts an array of date strings from a format of 17-Nov-2011 to 11/17/11:

def date_convert dates
  months = { \'Jan\' => 1, \'Feb\         


        

Answer 1

Ruby has a pretty robust set of date and time functions, check out the Date class.

Date.parse("17-Nov-2011").strftime('%m/%d/%y')