Module: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Conversions

Included in:
String
Defined in:
lib/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb

Overview

Converting strings to other objects

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#ordObject

‘a’.ord == ‘a’ for Ruby 1.9 forward compatibility.



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# File 'lib/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 9

def ord
  self[0]
end

#to_dateObject



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# File 'lib/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 18

def to_date
  ::Date.new(*::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday))
end

#to_datetimeObject



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# File 'lib/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 22

def to_datetime
  ::DateTime.civil(*::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday, :hour, :min, :sec).map { |arg| arg || 0 })
end

#to_time(form = :utc) ⇒ Object

Form can be either :utc (default) or :local.



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# File 'lib/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb', line 14

def to_time(form = :utc)
  ::Time.send("#{form}_time", *::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday, :hour, :min, :sec).map { |arg| arg || 0 })
end