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

Use strptime and give a specific time format.

ruby-1.9.2-p136 :022 > Date.strptime '03/21/2011', '%m/%d/%Y'
 => #

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See michaelmichael's response for the reason for this difference between Ruby versions.