From 6d688aa20c1075aa37134c2bfa9d7eae75f90437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:07:02 +0000
Subject: Added String#to_time and String#to_date for wrapping ParseDate

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@824 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 activesupport/CHANGELOG                               |  5 +++++
 activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb   |  2 ++
 .../lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb        |  6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb

diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
index 01f42c9aab..8e6f05884d 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+*SVN*
+
+* Added String#to_time and String#to_date for wrapping ParseDate
+
+
 *1.0.0* (24th February, 2005)
 
 * Added TimeZone as the first of a number of value objects that among others Active Record can use rich value objects using composed_of #688 [Jamis Buck]
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
index 6d554b483c..3056f74744 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/string/inflections'
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/string/conversions'
 
 class String #:nodoc:
   include ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections
+  include ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Conversions
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cfb767d1f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+require 'parsedate'
+
+module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
+  module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
+    module String #:nodoc:
+      # Converting strings to other objects
+      module Conversions
+        # Form can be either :utc (default) or :local.
+        def to_time(form = :utc)
+          ::Time.send(form, *ParseDate.parsedate(self))
+        end
+
+        def to_date
+          ::Date.new(*ParseDate.parsedate(self)[0..2])
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
index 74a4010f91..f394509dd1 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
@@ -61,4 +61,10 @@ class StringInflectionsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
       assert_equal(class_name, table_name.classify)
     end
   end
+  
+  def test_string_to_time
+    assert_equal Time.utc(2005, 2, 27, 23, 50), "2005-02-27 23:50".to_time
+    assert_equal Time.local(2005, 2, 27, 23, 50), "2005-02-27 23:50".to_time(:local)
+    assert_equal Date.new(2005, 2, 27), "2005-02-27".to_date
+  end
 end
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