Class: Time

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• Time

Defined in:

lib/twitter/ext/stdlib.rb

Overview

Extension to Time that outputs RFC2822 compliant string on #to_s

Instance Method Summary

• #old_to_s ⇒ Object
• #to_s(format = nil) ⇒ Object

  Returns RFC2822 compliant string for Time object.

Instance Method Details

#old_to_s ⇒ Object

# File 'lib/twitter/ext/stdlib.rb', line 23

alias :old_to_s :to_s

#to_s(format = nil) ⇒ Object

Returns RFC2822 compliant string for Time object. For example,

# Tony Blair's last day in office (hopefully)
best_day_ever = Time.local(2007, 6, 27)
best_day_ever.to_s # => "Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100"

You can also pass in an option format argument that corresponds to acceptable values according to ActiveSupport’s Time#to_formatted_s method.

# File 'lib/twitter/ext/stdlib.rb', line 33

def to_s(format = nil)
  format ? self.to_formatted_s(format) : self.rfc2822
end