[Rails] Getting number of days in a month

[Eric Goodwin]

oops ...

today = Date.today
@number_of_days = Date.civil(today.year, today.month, -1).day

Eric Goodwin wrote:
> Hey,
> This should work.
>
> @number_of_days = Date.civil(year, month, -1).day
>
> Cheers,
> Eric Goodwin
>
>
> Dylan Markow wrote:
>> In PHP, there was an argument you could pass to the Date function to 
>> get the number of days in the current month:
>>
>> echo date("t"); // Outputs "28" for February
>>
>> I don't see anything like this in Ruby/Rails. Right now, I'm using a 
>> very ugly line to pull the last day of the month:
>>
>> @number_of_days = (Date.strptime(Date.today.strftime("%Y-%m-01")) >> 
>> 1) - 1
>>
>> Basically, it takes the first day of the current month, adds one 
>> month, and then subtracts one day. Am I completely overlooking some 
>> obvious and easy way to do this? (I'm assuming so).
>>
>>
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