how to check string is valid date or not in rails

Question

Hi All,

i have a string say "31-02-2010" now i want to check that wheather this date is valid date or not . what is the best way to do it?

so i need a method which i operate on string which returns true if date is valid and false if it's invalid.

Answer 1

Date class has a method to do that

require 'date'
begin
   Date.parse("31-02-2010")
rescue
   #do something if invalid
end