How to use the to_date in Rails in English date

Question

I am trying to change a string like this "05/09/14" to a date object using to_date for example:

"05/09/14".to_date but I am getting the wrong format, I end up with 14 Sep 0005

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

thanks,

Answer 1

use this :

Date.strptime("05/09/14", "%d/%m/%y")

this will tell rails about the format in which you want to parse your date string.