Timelord

Timelord parses dates out of strings. The string itself can contain non-date text - for instance: "Call Matt on Tuesday" will return a date object for the upcoming Tuesday.

require 'timelord'
Timelord.parse("Tuesday").to_s # "2011-01-04"
Timelord.parse("On Tuesday go for a walk").to_s # "2011-01-04"

For more examples, check out the spec

The default date format is the international format. 11/01 is January 11th.

To use the american date format pass in :american as the second parameter

Timelord.parse("11/01").to_s # "2011-01-11"
Timelord.parse("11/01", format: :american) # "2011-11-01"

As of version 0.0.1 all dates without a year automatically choose the next occurrence of that date. If there is demand for the ability to retrieve previous dates, then the functionality will be added.