Module: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Conversions

Included in:
String
Defined in:
lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb

Overview

Converting strings to other objects

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#ord ⇒ Object

‘a’.ord == ‘a’ for Ruby 1.9 forward compatibility.



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 9

def ord
  self[0]
end

#to_date ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 18

def to_date
  ::Date.new(*ParseDate.parsedate(self)[0..2])
end

#to_datetime ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 22

def to_datetime
  ::DateTime.civil(*ParseDate.parsedate(self)[0..5].map {|arg| arg || 0} << 0)
end

#to_time(form = :utc) ⇒ Object

Form can be either :utc (default) or :local.



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# File 'lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 14

def to_time(form = :utc)
  ::Time.send("#{form}_time", *ParseDate.parsedate(self)[0..5].map {|arg| arg || 0})
end