module ActiveSupport #:nodoc: module CoreExtensions #:nodoc: module Date #:nodoc: # Getting dates in different convenient string representations and other objects module Conversions DATE_FORMATS = { :short => "%e %b", :long => "%B %e, %Y", :db => "%Y-%m-%d", :long_ordinal => lambda { |date| date.strftime("%B #{date.day.ordinalize}, %Y") } # => "April 25th, 2007" } def self.included(klass) #:nodoc: klass.send(:alias_method, :to_default_s, :to_s) klass.send(:alias_method, :to_s, :to_formatted_s) end def to_formatted_s(format = :default) if formatter = DATE_FORMATS[format] if formatter.respond_to?(:call) formatter.call(self).to_s else strftime(formatter).strip end else to_default_s end end # To be able to keep Dates and Times interchangeable on conversions def to_date self end def to_time(form = :local) if respond_to?(:hour) ::Time.send(form, year, month, day, hour, min, sec) else ::Time.send(form, year, month, day) end end def xmlschema to_time.xmlschema end end end end end