Module: Timely::String

Included in:
String
Defined in:
lib/timely/string.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#to_date(fmt = nil) ⇒ Object

fmt e.g. ‘%d/%m/%Y’ By default it will try to guess the format If using ActiveSupport you can pass in a symbol for the DATE_FORMATS



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# File 'lib/timely/string.rb', line 8

def to_date(fmt = nil)
  if fmt
    fmt = Date::DATE_FORMATS[fmt] if fmt.is_a?(Symbol) && defined?(Date::DATE_FORMATS)
    parsed = ::Date._strptime(self, fmt)
    parsed[:year] = parsed[:year] + 2000 if parsed[:year] < 1000
    ::Date.new(*parsed.values_at(:year, :mon, :mday))
  else
    ::Date.new(*::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday))
  end
rescue NoMethodError, ArgumentError
  raise DateFormatException, "Date #{self} is invalid or not formatted correctly."
end