DateMisc

add misc methods to Date

Usage

require 'date_misc'

• Date.easy_parse(date_string)
  • 'tomorrow', 'today' and 'yesterday' returns as you imagined
  • other string will be passed to original Date.parse
  • if invalid string is given, returns Date.today
• Date#wday_position
  • returns position of wday in current month
  • e.g : 23, Jan 2016 is 4th Saturday of this month

[1] pry(main)> Date.today
=> #<Date: 2016-01-23 ((2457411j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
[2] pry(main)> Date.today.wday
=> 6
[3] pry(main)> Date.today.wday_position
=> 4

• Date#wday_name(lang = :ja)
  • returns name of wday in specified language
• Date#month_name(lang = :ja)
  • returns name of month in specified language

[1] pry(main)> Date.today
=> #<Date: 2016-01-26 ((2457414j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
[2] pry(main)> Date.today.wday_name
=> "火"
[3] pry(main)> Date.today.month_name
=> "睦月"

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/kwappa/date_misc.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.