TapeMeasure

Contains a text parser for converting various measurements into their inch :/ equivilent, as well as doing multiplication with those numbers:

TapeMeasure.parse('6ft').parse = 72
TapeMeasure.parse('6in').parse = 6
TapeMeasure.parse('6ft 6in').parse = 78
TapeMeasure.parse('6 * 6').parse = 36
TapeMeasure.parse('(6ft 6in) + 6in').parse = 84

They underlying library supports all units and could easily be expanded to handle natural lanuage parsing of other units in strings. Also contains a formatter that converts a measurement to all of it's corresponding measurements:

TapeMeasure.format(13.5) = "1' 1 1/2""

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'tape_measure'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tape_measure

Used for parsing various measurements into a constant measurement. m, cm, ft, in all converted to the corresponding inch value. Useful for unpredictable input types, common in things such as room size and lumber measurements.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/tape_measure/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request