Rails - Jul 2006 - get month number of a date

how can i get the month number of a specific.

for example  this code don?t work

  month(Date.today)

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On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:51 PM, sail wrote:
> how can i get the month number of a specific.
>
> for example  this code don?t work
>
>   month(Date.today)
 >> Time.now.month
=> 7

On 7/6/06, sail <sail@hotmail.com> wrote:
> how can i get the month number of a specific.
>
> for example  this code don?t work
>
>   month(Date.today)
Date.today.month

For more info:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Date.html

Tom

tanks

Tom Ward & Rob Biedenharn

that works very well.

but i have a new question more complex for you...

how can i get the value double of a date.

for example in visualbasic today is
 cdbl(date) = 38904


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On Jul 6, 2006, at 6:09 PM, sail wrote:
> tanks
>
> Tom Ward & Rob Biedenharn
>
> that works very well.
>
> but i have a new question more complex for you...
>
> how can i get the value double of a date.
>
> for example in visualbasic today is
>  cdbl(date) = 38904
>
Assuming that the "value double of a date" is like the number of days
since some date in the past, you could do:

 >> require ''date''
=> true
 >> Date.today.jd - 38904
=> 2415019
 >> class Date
 >> def cdbl(start=2415019)
 >>   self.jd - start
 >> end
 >> end
=> nil
 >> Date.today.cdbl
=> 38904

Then tomorrow will be:
 >> Date.today.succ.cdbl
=> 38905

I suppose that''s what you''re asking, but perhaps you need to
step
back and think about what you are really trying to accomplish.  (And  
if a direct translation from visualbasic is the right thing to do.)

-Rob