how to convert string to date object in ruby

Question

I am getting a date as a string like below:

"September 1998"

I tried like Date.parse("September 1998"), but it did not work.

How do I convert it into a ruby date object which returns string in above format?

Answer 1

Date.strptime('September 1998', '%B %Y'). However, this will represent September 1st 1998, because date objects represent, well, dates.