How to calculate how many years passed since a given date in Ruby?

Question

This question was here for other languages, so let here be one for Ruby.

How do I calculate number of complete years that have passed from a given date? As you prob

Answer 1

To calculate number of Years and Months between two dates, I used this function

  def calculate_year_month(from_date, to_date)
    num_days = (from_date - to_date).to_i
    num_months = (num_days / 30) 
    num_years = (num_months / 12) 
    num_months = (num_months % 12) 
    return num_years.to_s + " year(s) and " + num_months.to_s + " month(s)" 
  end