Converting strings to other objects

Methods
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Instance Public methods
to_date()

Source: show 

# File rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb, line 13
def to_date
  ::Date.new(*ParseDate.parsedate(self)[0..2])
end
to_time(form = :utc)

Form can be either :utc (default) or :local.

Source: show 

# File rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb, line 9
def to_time(form = :utc)
  ::Time.send(form, *ParseDate.parsedate(self))
end