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With Dates downto method, count down five days, displaying each date as you go (this makes in-place changes to the date)

require 'date' date = Date.new( 2006, 11, 8 ) date.downto( date - 5 ) { |date| puts date } # date has changed date.to_s # => "2007-11-03"