Ruby - convert string to date

Question

I have a string like "2011-06-02T23:59:59+05:30".

I want to convert it to date format and need to parse only the date, "2011-06-02".

Answer 1

require 'date'
d = Date.parse("2011-06-02T23:59:59+05:30")
d.strftime("%F")