Edtf-Rails

An ActiveRecord extension to deal with Extended DateTime Format attributes

Edtf-Rails let ActiveRecord use the Extended Date Time Format as type for attributes and is based on the gem edtf-ruby which is an EDTF implementation for Ruby. Basically, when writing the attribute an EDTF string is stored in the DB while, when reading, the EDTF string is parsed to return a Date. To do that, after a record is initialized, for each edtf attributes (date_of_birth for example), three virtual attributes for year, month and day are set (date_of_birth_y, date_of_birth_m, date_of_birth_d). Before validation those three virtual attributes are composed as a edtf date and assigned to the relative attribute.

gem install edtf-rails

In your model specify which attributes must be treated as EDTF:

edtf :attributes => [:date_of_birth, :date_of_death]

They needs to be of type string in the database.

NOTE: at db level edtf attributes will be treated as string while querying

To test compatibility with different versions of ActiveRecord appraisal was used

appraisal rake

Comments and feedback are welcome

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