Module ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions
In: vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb

Getting dates in different convenient string representations and other objects

Methods

Constants

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"

Public Instance methods

Overrides the default inspect method with a human readable one, e.g., "Mon, 21 Feb 2005"

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb, line 57
57:         def readable_inspect
58:           strftime("%a, %d %b %Y")
59:         end

A method to keep Time, Date and DateTime instances interchangeable on conversions. In this case, it simply returns self.

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb, line 63
63:         def to_date
64:           self
65:         end

Converts a Date instance to a DateTime, where the time is set to the beginning of the day and UTC offset is set to 0.

Example:

  date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10)  # => Sat, 10 Nov 2007

  date.to_datetime               # => Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:00 0000

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb, line 88
88:         def to_datetime
89:           ::DateTime.civil(year, month, day, 0, 0, 0, 0)
90:         end

Convert to a formatted string - see DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats. You can also add your own formats to the DATE_FORMATS constant and use them with this method.

This method is also aliased as to_s.

Examples:

  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"

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb, line 44
44:         def to_formatted_s(format = :default)
45:           if formatter = DATE_FORMATS[format]
46:             if formatter.respond_to?(:call)
47:               formatter.call(self).to_s
48:             else
49:               strftime(formatter)
50:             end
51:           else
52:             to_default_s
53:           end
54:         end

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).

Examples:

  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

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb, line 77
77:         def to_time(form = :local)
78:           ::Time.send("#{form}_time", year, month, day)
79:         end

[Source]

    # File vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb, line 92
92:         def xmlschema
93:           to_time.xmlschema
94:         end

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