Ruby on Rails function for this

Question

I would like to have a function which get start_day and end_day as two string type parameter and returns the list of dates inside the specified date span including start and end days, anyone can provide a efficient code block?

def get_list_of_dates(start_date, end_date)
  ...
  return dates
end

Answer 1

def get_list_of_dates(start_date, end_date)
  (Date.parse(start_date)..Date.parse(end_date)).to_a
end

If Date.parse doesn't accept the string (it doesn't accept many formats), you may want to check out chronic.