Class: String

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/smarter_dates/chronic_strings.rb

Overview

provide natural-language date / datetime parsing to strings

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#to_chronic_date ⇒ Object

:call-seq: to_chronic_date

Parses a string into a Date object using the same methods as .to_chronic_datetime



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# File 'lib/smarter_dates/chronic_strings.rb', line 22

def to_chronic_date
  obj = to_chronic_datetime
  obj && obj.to_date
end

#to_chronic_datetime ⇒ Object

:call-seq: to_chronic_datetime

Parses a string into a DateTime object using the Chronic gem if available. If not, try parsing the string using :parse_with_builtins raise an error if the string fails to parse



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# File 'lib/smarter_dates/chronic_strings.rb', line 10

def to_chronic_datetime
  dt = defined?(Chronic) ? parse_with_chronic : parse_with_builtins
  #raise RuntimeError, "#{dt.inspect} unparsable Date/DateTime" unless dt
  return unless dt
  dt.to_datetime
end

#to_chronic_time ⇒ Object

:call-seq: to_chronic_time

Parses a string into a Time object using the same methods as .to_chronic_datetime



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# File 'lib/smarter_dates/chronic_strings.rb', line 32

def to_chronic_time
  obj = to_chronic_datetime
  obj && obj.to_time
end