Excuse me while I light some scented candles...

Handling age as an input is pain. Should it be 12.5? 12 years? Two separate fields on a form, one for year, one for month?

puts NewAge "12y 5m"   #=> "12 years 5 months"

NewAge("28").age       #=> {years: 28, months: 0}

puts NewAge "9 months" #=> "0 years 9 months"

NewAge("72 y 6m").to_s #=> "72 years 6 months"
NewAge("72 y 6m").to_s( "%d YEARS" ) #=> "72 YEARS"

puts NewAge "12.5"     #=> 12 years 5 months
# No, I don't think it should be 6 months.

puts NewAge "12.11"    #=> 12 years 11 months
puts NewAge "12 11"    #=> 12 years 11 months
puts NewAge "12-11"    #=> 12 years 11 months
puts NewAge "12"       #=> 12 years 0 months
puts NewAge "12 m"     #=> 0 years 12 months

There's nothing but years and months as that is all I need for now. The validation is not very strict, just enough to let two numbers in that are recognised as a year and a month.

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