SmarterDates – Natural languange date parsing for all date/datetime attributes¶ ↑

machina to automatically parse (with the chronic gem) date/datetime attributes upon assignment

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'lib','smarter_dates')

class MyObject
  attr_accessor :birth_d

  include SmarterDates
end

obj = MyObject.new
obj.birth_d = '7 days ago'

puts obj.birth_d
# => Thu Apr 22 12:00:00 -0500 1976

Humans want to think of date and datetime attributes in a natural manner. Standard ruby Date and DateTime objects do not support this well.

% gem install smarter_dates

Copyright © 2010 [Paul Belt], released under the MIT license

github.com/belt/smarter_dates