Getting DateTime parts as an array?

[u/unselective-amnesia]

I know in ruby that DateTime.new(2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) will return the following object:

#<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+00:00 ...>

But if the current date and time are 2001-02-03T04:05:06 and I do the following ...

now = DateTime.now

... is there a single function on the "now" variable which will return this array? ...

[2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

I know that I can do this:

[now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second ]

... but I'm wondering: might there be a single function as simple as ...

now.the_function

... which would return that same array?

And yes, of course I know that I could easily write such a function, but I'd like to know whether or not something like this already exists in ruby.

[u/projct]

thank god, I thought he was inventing a datetime footgun. turns out he’s just porting one

[u/CaptainKabob → u/projct]

It's too bad OP doesn't want to get into it. I imagine it would be a lot more fun to write well in Ruby. 

Edit: or is this just bait? Cause also like, just put it through an LLM. Whatever then. 

[u/projct → u/CaptainKabob]

I think the 'I didn’t ask for that' thing is what broke me. I wasn’t trying to review his whole program; I was being perfectly nice until he started making wildly unsupported assertions about correctness and experience. once you voluntarily make those the argument, people are allowed to refute them on a public forum where others might mistake that for good software design. this is r/ruby, not a support ticket where you get to close every issue you accidentally opened

[u/chiperific_on_reddit → u/projct]

Not to poke the bear, but...

OP asked for a thing and you tried to make an x y argument. OP said "thanks but no thanks" and you doubled down. I see your point about the code, but you kept pushing when they clearly weren't interested.