Module: DateByExample

Defined in:
lib/date-formatter.rb,
lib/date-formatter/version.rb

Constant Summary collapse

MONTH_NAME_ABBREV_RE =

todo/fix: improve end of MONTH_RE

do NOT use \b - also break on everything but a-z incl. numbers/digits - (double) check!!!

%r<
 \b(
    Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec
   )\b
>x
MONTH_NAME_RE =

note: May is turned into an abbreviated month name (%b)

%r<
  \b(
    January|February|March|
    April|June|              ## note: May is "ambigious" and, thus, NOT included
    July|August|September|
    October|November|December
    )\b
>x
DAY_NAME_ABBREV_RE = 
%r<
 \b(
   Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun
   )\b
>x
DAY_NAME_RE = 
%r<
 \b(Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|Sunday)\b
>x
YEAR_RE = 
%r<
 \b([12][0-9][0-9][0-9])\b
>x
DAY_WITH_ZERO_RE = 
%r<
  \b(0[1-9])\b
>x
DAY_RE = 
%r<
  \b([1-9]|[123][0-9])\b
>x
TIME_WITH_ZERO_RE = 
%r<
   \b(0[0-9]:[0-9][0-9])\b
>x
TIME_RE = 
%r<
\b(([1-9]|[12][0-9]):[0-9][0-9])\b
>x
MAJOR =

todo: namespace inside version or something - why? why not??

0
MINOR = 
1
PATCH = 
1
VERSION = 
[MAJOR,MINOR,PATCH].join('.')

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details



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# File 'lib/date-formatter/version.rb', line 12

def self.banner
  "date-formatter/#{VERSION} on Ruby #{RUBY_VERSION} (#{RUBY_RELEASE_DATE}) [#{RUBY_PLATFORM}]"
end

.root ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/date-formatter/version.rb', line 16

def self.root
  File.expand_path( File.dirname(File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__))) )
end

.to_strftime(spec) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/date-formatter.rb', line 67

def self.to_strftime( spec )
  spec = spec.gsub( MONTH_NAME_RE, '%B' )         # %B - The full month name ("January")
  spec = spec.gsub( MONTH_NAME_ABBREV_RE, '%b')   # %b - The abbreviated month name ("Jan")
  spec = spec.gsub( DAY_NAME_RE, '%A' )           # %A - The full weekday name ("Sunday")
  spec = spec.gsub( DAY_NAME_ABBREV_RE, '%a')     # %a - The abbreviated weekday name ("Sun")

  spec = spec.gsub( TIME_WITH_ZERO_RE, '%H:%M' )  # %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
                                                  # %M - Minute of the hour (00..59)
  spec = spec.gsub( TIME_RE, '%-H:%M' )

  spec = spec.gsub( YEAR_RE, '%Y' )               # %Y - Year with century
  spec = spec.gsub( DAY_WITH_ZERO_RE, '%d' )      # %d - Day of the month (01..31)
  spec = spec.gsub( DAY_RE, '%-d' )               # %d - Day of the month without a leading zero (1..31)

  ## add some "higher-level" symbolic format shortcuts too
  spec = spec.gsub( 'YYYY', '%Y' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'YY',   '%y' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'MM',   '%m' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'DD',   '%d' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'D',    '%-d')

  spec = spec.gsub( 'hh',   '%H' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'h',    '%-H' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'mm',   '%M' )
  spec = spec.gsub( 'ss',   '%S' )

  spec
end

.version ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/date-formatter/version.rb', line 8

def self.version
  VERSION
end