require 'date' require 'active_support/inflector/methods' require 'active_support/core_ext/date/zones' require 'active_support/core_ext/module/remove_method' class Date DATE_FORMATS = { :short => '%e %b', :long => '%B %e, %Y', :db => '%Y-%m-%d', :number => '%Y%m%d', :long_ordinal => lambda { |date| day_format = ActiveSupport::Inflector.ordinalize(date.day) date.strftime("%B #{day_format}, %Y") # => "April 25th, 2007" }, :rfc822 => '%e %b %Y' } # Ruby 1.9 has Date#to_time which converts to localtime only. remove_method :to_time # Ruby 1.9 has Date#xmlschema which converts to a string without the time component. remove_method :xmlschema # 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.to_formatted_s(:db) # => "2007-11-10" # date.to_s(:db) # => "2007-11-10" # # date.to_formatted_s(:short) # => "10 Nov" # date.to_formatted_s(:long) # => "November 10, 2007" # date.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal) # => "November 10th, 2007" # date.to_formatted_s(:rfc822) # => "10 Nov 2007" # # == Adding your own time formats to to_formatted_s # You can add your own formats to the Date::DATE_FORMATS hash. # Use the format name as the hash key and either a strftime string # or Proc instance that takes a date argument as the value. # # # config/initializers/time_formats.rb # Date::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = '%B %Y' # Date::DATE_FORMATS[:short_ordinal] = ->(date) { date.strftime("%B #{date.day.ordinalize}") } 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 alias_method :to_default_s, :to_s alias_method :to_s, :to_formatted_s # 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 alias_method :default_inspect, :inspect alias_method :inspect, :readable_inspect # 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 def to_time(form = :local) ::Time.send(form, year, month, day) end def xmlschema in_time_zone.xmlschema end end