find the creation date of a csv file in ruby

To find the creation date of a CSV file in Ruby, you can use the File and File::Stat classes along with the ctime method. Here's an example code snippet that prints out the creation time of a CSV file.

main.rb
require 'csv'

filename = 'example.csv'
file_stat = File.stat(filename)

puts "Created on #{file_stat.ctime}"
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In this code, we first require the csv library, assuming that we'll need to use it later for other operations on the CSV file.

We then specify the name of our CSV file as a string in the filename variable.

To get the creation time for the file, we use the File.stat method to get a File::Stat object for our file. We then use the ctime method on this object to get the creation time, and print it out using puts.

Note that the time returned by ctime is in the local timezone of the system where the code is running. If you need to work with times in a different timezone or format, you can use Ruby's Time class to convert and manipulate the time value.