Ruby 1.87 vs 1.92 Date.parse

Question

In Ruby 1.87 I could do:

Date.parse (\"3/21/2011\")

Now in 1.9.2 I get:

ArgumentError: invalid date

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Answer 1

I have always had difficulty parsing dates with Date.parse. My solution is gratutious of the chronic gem. I also like the strptime function found in another answer.