gistfile1.rb

# Deomontrates (very simply) how  Active Record handles multiparameter assignments

require "rubygems"
require "activesupport"
require "activerecord"

this_hash = {
 "date(3i)" => "20",
 "date(2i)" => "1",
 "date(1i)" => "2003"
}

gets_turned_into_this_array = [2003,1,20]

# And splatted in here
date = Date.new(*gets_turned_into_this_array) 


puts date.to_s