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" :rfc822 => "%e %b %Y" } def self.included(base) #:nodoc: base.instance_eval do alias_method :to_default_s, :to_s alias_method :to_s, :to_formatted_s alias_method :default_inspect, :inspect alias_method :inspect, :readable_inspect # Ruby 1.9 has Date#to_time which converts to localtime only. remove_method :to_time if base.instance_methods.include?(:to_time) end 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) end else to_default_s end end # Overrides the default inspect method with a human readable one, e.g., "Mon, 21 Feb 2005" def readable_inspect strftime("%a, %d %b %Y") end # To be able to keep Times, Dates and DateTimes interchangeable on conversions def to_date self end if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9' # Converts self to a Ruby Time object; time is set to beginning of day # Timezone can either be :local or :utc (default :local) def to_time(form = :local) ::Time.send("#{form}_time", year, month, day) end # Converts self to a Ruby DateTime object; time is set to beginning of day def to_datetime ::DateTime.civil(year, month, day, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) end if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9' def xmlschema to_time.xmlschema end end end end end