RailsPdate <img src=“https://codeclimate.com/github/mohsen-alizadeh/rails-pdate/badges/gpa.svg” /> <img src=“https://travis-ci.org/mohsen-alizadeh/rails-pdate.svg?branch=master” alt=“Build Status” /> <img src=“https://codeclimate.com/github/mohsen-alizadeh/rails-pdate/badges/coverage.svg” /> <img src=“https://codeclimate.com/github/mohsen-alizadeh/rails-pdate/badges/issue_count.svg” /> <img src=“https://badge.fury.io/rb/rails_pdate.svg” alt=“Gem Version” />¶ ↑

rails_pdate is very simple and easy gem library that can used in rails application.

rails_pdate gem has written in rails 4.0.0 but maybe work in previous versions of rails

• put rails_pdate in Gemfile like this

  gem 'rails_pdate'
  

• run bunle install

  bundle install
  

• parse string to PDate object

  "1368-11-09".to_pdate   # => 1368-11-09
  
  "1368/11/09".to_pdate   # => 1368-11-09
  
  "1368/11/09".to_pdate.class   # => PDate
  

• convert Date object to PDate object ( Convert from gregorian to persian )

  Date.today.to_pdate # => 1392-09-23
  
  Date.new(1990, 1, 29).to_pdate  # => 1368-11-09
  

• convert PDate object to Date object ( convert from persian to gregorian )

  PDate.new(1367, 8, 29).to_date  # => Sun, 20 Nov 1988
  PDate.new(1367, 8, 29).to_date.class    # => Date
  

• convert PDate object to formatted string

  PDate.new(1368, 11, 9).strftime("%Y %m %d") # => "1368 11 09"
  # '%Y' => year
  # '%m' => zero padding two digit month
  # '%d' => zero padding two digit day
  # '%C' => year / 100
  # '%y' => year % 100
  # '%B' => persian month name in finglish
  # '%b' => persian month name
  # '%e' => day