Parsing string dates in ruby such as “28-May-10”

Question

I tried parsing using

Date.parse(\"28-May-10\").to_s

Returns 0010-5-28 (which is 2000 years off!)

How can I get ruby to in

Answer 1

I prefer Date.strptime for this task:

require 'date'
puts Date.strptime("28-May-10", "%d-%b-%y") #2010-05-28