find the creation date of a file in ruby

One way to find the creation date of a file in Ruby is to use the File::Stat class, which provides information about a file. The ctime method of File::Stat returns the creation time of the file as a Time object.

Here's an example code snippet that demonstrates how to find the creation time of a file:

main.rb
filename = "example.txt"

# Create a File::Stat object for the file
file_stat = File.stat(filename)

# Get the creation time of the file
creation_time = file_stat.ctime

# Print the creation time in a human-readable format
puts "Creation time of #{filename}: #{creation_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}"
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In this example, we first create a File::Stat object for the file we're interested in. We then use the ctime method to retrieve the creation time of the file as a Time object. Finally, we format the Time object using strftime to print the creation time in a human-readable format.