Finding exact date before specified months & weeks

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Dear All,

Iam using ruby1.8.6 and rails 2.2.2

I have small issue when using Date functionality. My need is to find
date when months or weeks is given as input like,

When 3 months is given as input i need to calculate the exact date
before 3 months. Also when 2 weeks is given as input i need to calculate
the exact date before 2 weeks.

I have tried (Date.today - 3.months) but its not working could any one
plz help me out.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Jose Martin

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Dear All,

Iam using ruby1.8.6 and rails 2.2.2

I have small issue when using Date functionality. My need is to find
date when months or weeks is given as input like,

When 3 months is given as input i need to calculate the exact date
before 3 months. Also when 2 weeks is given as input i need to calculate
the exact date before 2 weeks.

I have tried (Date.today - 3.months) but its not working could any one
plz help me out.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Jose Martin
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I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you need, but perhaps this helps:

require 'date'

=> true

puts Date.today

2010-02-12
=> nil

puts(Date.today << 3)

2009-11-12
=> nil

puts(Date.today - 14)

2010-01-29
=> nil

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com

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On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:28 AM, dare ruby wrote:

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Thanks rob,

Exactly thats what i needed. It works fine in my application now. Thanks
a lot Mr.Rob.

regards,
Jose martin

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