Calculating days to go using date class-help needed

Ruby
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consider this code stub
require ‘date’
today = DateTime.now
puts "Datetime.now returned: "+today.to_s
birthday = Date.new(2011, 10, 10)
days_to_go = today-birthday
puts "Days to go: "+days_to_go.to_s

It prints a number like -52632699/21600000

How do I get it to show true number of days, i.e. a number like 25

Thanks in advance!

Joe

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:16 AM, joe c. [email protected] wrote:

require ‘date’
#today = DateTime.now

DateTime.now.to_date

birthday = Date.new(2011, 10, 10)

days_to_go = today-birthday

days_to_go = birthday - today # the future is built with bigger numbers
:slight_smile:

puts "Days to go: "+days_to_go.to_s

It prints a number like -52632699/21600000

puts days_to_go.class #=> Rational

How do I get it to show true number of days, i.e. a number like 25

puts “Days to go: #{days_to_go.to_i}”

HTH,

3

that works fine - thanks!

Joe