module ActiveSupport #:nodoc: module CoreExtensions #:nodoc: module DateTime #:nodoc: # Getting datetimes in different convenient string representations and other objects module Conversions DATE_FORMATS = { :db => "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", :time => "%H:%M", :short => "%d %b %H:%M", :long => "%B %d, %Y %H:%M", :long_ordinal => lambda { |datetime| datetime.strftime("%B #{datetime.day.ordinalize}, %Y %H:%M") }, :rfc822 => "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", } def self.included(klass) klass.send(:alias_method, :to_datetime_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_datetime_default_s end end def to_date ::Date.new(year, month, day) end # To be able to keep Times and DateTimes interchangeable on conversions def to_datetime self end end end end end