How to add months in date with rails [closed]

Question

For example: I am inserting date 2011-06-01 (format mm/dd/yyyy) and now I want to add 8 months to this date. I want the result to be 2012-02-01.

So when adding months, the year may also increase.

Answer 1

Rails provides for + n.days, n.months, etc.

my_date + 8.months

This is an ActiveRecord, not a Ruby thing, though. So make sure it's loading thru Rails.