Class: Date

Inherits:
Object show all
Defined in:
lib/standard/facets/date.rb

Overview

Date

This new version of Date extension has been largely improved by porting some of the methods used by ActiveSupport. The old version already had much in common with the Active Support library, so it was decided to take it a step further in that direction for the sake of interoparability.

Hopefully most of these methods will find there way into Ruby’s own standard library eventually.

The biggest difference with ActiveSupport is the lack of many of the “English-esque” methods, and that we use #stamp with Date::FORMAT, instead of #to_formmated_s with Date::DATE_FORMATS. We do not override the standard #to_s method like ActiveSupport does.

Constant Summary collapse

FORMAT = 
{
  :short        => "%e %b",
  :long         => "%B %e, %Y",
  :db           => "%Y-%m-%d",
  :number       => "%Y%m%d",
  :rfc822       => "%e %b %Y",
  :default      => "%Y-%m-%d",
  nil           => "%Y-%m-%d"
}

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.current ⇒ Object

Returns Time.zone.today when config.time_zone is set, otherwise just returns Date.today.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 43

def self.current
  ::Time.zone_default ? ::Time.zone.today : ::Date.today
end

.tomorrow ⇒ Object

Returns a new Date representing the date 1 day after today (i.e. tomorrow’s date).



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 38

def self.tomorrow
  ::Date.today.tomorrow
end

.yesterday ⇒ Object

Returns a new Date representing the date 1 day ago (i.e. yesterday’s date).



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 33

def self.yesterday
  ::Date.today.yesterday
end

Instance Method Details

#advance(options) ⇒ Object

Provides precise Date calculations for years, months, and days. The options parameter takes a hash with any of these keys: :years, :months, :weeks, :days.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 137

def advance(options)
  d = self
  d = d >> options.delete(:years) * 12 if options[:years]
  d = d >> options.delete(:months)     if options[:months]
  d = d +  options.delete(:weeks) * 7  if options[:weeks]
  d = d +  options.delete(:days)       if options[:days]
  d
end

#ago(seconds) ⇒ Object

Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the beginning of the day (0:00) and then subtracts the specified number of seconds



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 163

def ago(seconds)
  to_time.since(-seconds)
end

#beginning_of_day ⇒ Object Also known as: midnight

Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the beginning of the day (0:00).



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 177

def beginning_of_day
  to_time
end

#change(options) ⇒ Object

Returns a new Date where one or more of the elements have been changed according to the options parameter.

Date.new(2007, 5, 12).change(:day=>1)                 # Date.new(2007, 5, 1)
Date.new(2007, 5, 12).change(:year=>2005, :month=>1)  # Date.new(2005, 1, 12)



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 152

def change(options)
  ::Date.new(
    options[:year]  || self.year,
    options[:month] || self.month,
    options[:day]   || self.day
  )
end

#days_in_month ⇒ Object

Returns the number of days in the date’s month.

Date.new(2004,2).days_in_month  #=> 29

CREDIT: Ken Kunz.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 88

def days_in_month
   Date.civil(year, month, -1).day
end

#days_of_month ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 92

def days_of_month
  (1..days_in_month).to_a
end

#month_name ⇒ Object

Get the month name for this date object

CREDIT: Benjamin Oakes



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 99

def month_name
  MONTHNAMES[self.month]
end

#since(seconds) ⇒ Object Also known as: in

Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the beginning of the day (0:00) and then adds the specified number of seconds.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 170

def since(seconds)
  to_time.since(seconds)
end

#stamp(format = :default) ⇒ Object

Convert to a formatted string. See DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats.

This method is aliased to to_s.

date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10)   # Sat, 10 Nov 2007

date.stamp(:db)                 # => "2007-11-10"
date.stamp(:short)              # => "10 Nov"
date.stamp(:long)               # => "November 10, 2007"
date.stamp(:rfc822)             # => "10 Nov 2007"

Adding your own formats to stamp

You can add your own formats to the Date::FORMAT hash. Use the format name as the hash key and a strftime string as the value. Eg.

Date::FORMAT[:month_and_year] = "%B %Y"



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 121

def stamp(format=:default)
  if formatter = FORMAT[format]
    strftime(formatter)
  else
    to_s
  end
end

#to_date ⇒ Object

A method to keep Time, Date and DateTime instances interchangeable on conversions. In this case, it simply returns self.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 49

def to_date
  self
end

#to_datetime ⇒ Object

Converts a Date instance to a DateTime, where the time is set to the beginning of the day and UTC offset is set to 0.

date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10)  # Sat, 10 Nov 2007
date.to_datetime               # Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:00 0000



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 59

def to_datetime
  ::DateTime.civil(year, month, day, 0, 0, 0, 0)
end

#to_time(form = :local) ⇒ Object

Converts a Date instance to a Time, where the time is set to the beginning of the day. The timezone can be either :local or :utc (default :local).

date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10)  # Sat, 10 Nov 2007

date.to_time                   # Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 0800 2007
date.to_time(:local)           # Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 0800 2007

date.to_time(:utc)             # Sat Nov 10 00:00:00 UTC 2007



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 73

def to_time(form=:local)
  ::Time.send(form, year, month, day)
  ##::Time.send("#{form}_time", year, month, day)
end

#tomorrow ⇒ Object

Convenience method which returns a new Date/DateTime representing the time 1 day since the instance time.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 190

def tomorrow
  self + 1
end

#xmlschema ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 79

def xmlschema
  to_time.xmlschema
end

#yesterday ⇒ Object

Convenience method which returns a new Date/DateTime representing the time 1 day ago.



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# File 'lib/standard/facets/date.rb', line 184

def yesterday
  self - 1
end