Ruby date arithmetic error - "can't convert Date into an exact number (TypeError)"
I have the following Ruby program:
require 'date'
class Person
def initialize(name, dob)
@name = name
@dob = dob
end
def age
Ti开发者_StackOverflowme.now - @dob
end
def marry(someone)
"Life: " + age.to_s
end
end
fred = Person.new('Fred', Date.new(1934, 4, 16))
p fred
p fred.age.to_s
p fred.marry(1)
But ruby 1.9.2 gives error:
#<Person:0x2afab78 @name="Fred", @dob=#<Date: 1934-04-16 (4855087/2,0,2299161)>>
test1.rb:11:in `-': can't convert Date into an exact number (TypeError)
from test1.rb:11:in `age'
from test1.rb:22:in `<main>'
What am I doing wrong? TIA
You're trying to subtract a Date
from a Time
:
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > Time.now - Date.today
TypeError: can't convert Date into Float
But you can safely subtract a date from a date:
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > Date.today - Date.new(1900,1,1)
=> (40466/1)
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > (Date.today - Date.new(1900,1,1)).to_f / 365 # years
=> 110.865753424658
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