Change string in a date format to another format

Question

I have a string like this (YYYYMMDD):

20120225

And I want to have a string like this (MM/DD/YYYY):

02/25/

Answer 1

strptime parses the string representation of date with the specified template and creates a date object.

Date.strptime('20120225', '%Y%m%d').strftime("%m/%d/%Y")  #=> "02/25/2012"