describe :date_parse_eu, shared: true do # The - separator let's it work like European format, so it as a different spec it "can parse a YYYY-MM-DD string into a Date object" do d = Date.parse("2007#{@sep}10#{@sep}01") d.year.should == 2007 d.month.should == 10 d.day.should == 1 end it "can parse a MM-DD-YYYY string into a Date object" do d = Date.parse("10#{@sep}01#{@sep}2007") d.year.should == 2007 d.month.should == 1 d.day.should == 10 end it "can parse a MM-DD-YY string into a Date object" do d = Date.parse("10#{@sep}01#{@sep}07") d.year.should == 2010 d.month.should == 1 d.day.should == 7 end it "can parse a MM-DD-YY string into a Date object NOT using the year digits as 20XX" do d = Date.parse("10#{@sep}01#{@sep}07", false) d.year.should == 10 d.month.should == 1 d.day.should == 7 end it "can parse a MM-DD-YY string into a Date object using the year digits as 20XX" do d = Date.parse("10#{@sep}01#{@sep}07", true) d.year.should == 2010 d.month.should == 1 d.day.should == 7 end end