NAME

coerce

DESCRIPTION

a ruby library full of common cast/coercion operations

INSTALL

gem install coerce

USAGE

:~/git/coerce $ irb -r lib/coerce.rb 

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > Coerce.integer('42')
 => 42

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > Coerce.number('42.0')
 => 42.0 

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :003 > Coerce.time('yesterday')
 => Wed Aug 24 12:00:00 -0600 2011 

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :004 > Coerce.list_of_times('yesterday, today')
 => [Wed Aug 24 12:00:00 -0600 2011, Thu Aug 25 19:30:00 -0600 2011] 

ruby-1.8.7-p330 :005 > Coerce.list_of_floats("42, 4.2\n\n 420")
 => [42.0, 4.2, 420.0]