Check if date is within the past seven days

Question

I have a date in the following format: "%d-%m-%Y" (for example, today's date would be 07-09-2015), and I want to see if it is within the past seven days. Can anyone recommend a way?

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

require "date"
Date.today - 7 <= Date.parse("07-09-2015", "%d-%m-%Y")

Answer 2

sawa's answer is correct but In rails you can also check like this:

7.days.ago <= Date.parse("07-09-2015", "%d-%m-%Y")
#=> true