Module: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::DateTime::Conversions

Included in:
DateTime
Defined in:
lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb

Overview

Getting datetimes in different convenient string representations and other objects

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(base) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 6

def self.included(base)
  base.class_eval do
    alias_method :to_datetime_default_s, :to_s
    alias_method :to_s, :to_formatted_s
    alias_method :default_inspect, :inspect
    alias_method :inspect, :readable_inspect
  end
end

Instance Method Details

#readable_inspect ⇒ Object

Overrides the default inspect method with a human readable one, e.g., “Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:30:00 +0000”



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 28

def readable_inspect
  to_s(:rfc822)
end

#to_date ⇒ Object

Converts self to a Ruby Date object; time portion is discarded



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 33

def to_date
  ::Date.new(year, month, day)
end

#to_datetime ⇒ Object

To be able to keep Times, Dates and DateTimes interchangeable on conversions



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 44

def to_datetime
  self
end

#to_formatted_s(format = :default) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 15

def to_formatted_s(format = :default)
  if formatter = ::Time::DATE_FORMATS[format]
    if formatter.respond_to?(:call)
      formatter.call(self).to_s
    else
      strftime(formatter)
    end
  else
    to_datetime_default_s
  end
end

#to_time ⇒ Object

Attempts to convert self to a Ruby Time object; returns self if out of range of Ruby Time class If self has an offset other than 0, self will just be returned unaltered, since there’s no clean way to map it to a Time



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 39

def to_time
  self.offset == 0 ? ::Time.utc_time(year, month, day, hour, min, sec) : self
end

#xmlschema ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions.rb', line 48

def xmlschema
  strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S#{offset == 0 ? 'Z' : '%Z'}")
end