Stamped

This gem extends Time with a couple useful methods for dealing with iso8601 encoded times in UTC.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'stamped'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install stamped

Usage

Time.stamp #=> "2015-03-25T00:52:34Z"
Time.stamp(Time.at(0)) #=> "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
Time.from_stamp("2015-03-25T00:52:34Z") #=> 2015-03-25 00:52:34 UTC
Time.now.stamp #=> "2015-03-25T00:53:36Z"
Time.stamp_time #=> 2015-03-25 00:53:44 UTC

Testing

When testing with time, you often just want to make sure you have a valid timestamp, rather than a specific time. To aid this case, you can use the be_timestamp matcher.

# spec_helper.rb
require 'stamped/rspec'

# delivery.rb
class Delivery
  def initialize(time)
    @time = time
  end

  def timestamp
    @time.stamp
  end

  # ...
end

# delivery_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'

describe Delivery do
  it 'has a valid timestamp' do
    delivery = Delivery.new(3.days.from_now)

    expect(delivery.timestamp).to be_timestamp
  end
end

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/lintci/stamped/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request