Я знаю, что патчинг обезьян в наше время устарел, но я думаю, что это самый простой способ интеграции Ruby, Rails и Chronic.Я положил эту суть в мой инициализатор:
# https://gist.github.com/eric1234/3739149
#
# Mass monkey-patching! Provides integration between Chronic, Ruby and
# Rails. So now these all work:
#
# Date.parse "next summer"
# DateTime.parse "in 3 hours"
# Time.parse "3 months ago saturday at 5:00 pm"
#
# In addition we override String#to_date, String#to_datetime, String#to_time.
# These methods are used by older version of ActiveRecord when parsing time.
# For newer versions of ActiveRecord, Date::_parse is overridden to also
# use Chronic. This means you can assign a simple string to a ActiveRecord
# attribute:
#
# my_obj.starts_at = "thursday last week"
#
# Also since the String method are redefined you can easily create dates
# from strings. For example if you want tomorrow at 2pm you can just do:
#
# 'tomorrow at 2pm'.to_time
#
# This is more readable than the following IMHO:
#
# 1.day.from_now.change hour: 14
module Chronic::Extensions
module String
def to_date
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse self
return parsed.to_date if parsed
super
end
def to_datetime
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse self
return parsed.to_datetime if parsed
super
end
def to_time
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse self
return parsed.to_time if parsed
super
end
end
::String.prepend String
module DateTime
def parse datetime, *args
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse datetime
return parsed.to_datetime if parsed
super
end
end
::DateTime.singleton_class.prepend DateTime
module Date
def _parse date, *args
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse(date).try :to_datetime
if parsed
%i(year mon mday hour min sec sec_fraction offset).inject({}) do |result, fld|
value = case fld
when :offset then (parsed.offset * 86400).to_i
else parsed.public_send fld
end
result[fld] = value if value && value != 0
result
end
else
super
end
end
def parse date, *args
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse date
return parsed.to_date if parsed
super
end
end
::Date.singleton_class.prepend Date
module Time
def parse time, now=self.now
parsed = Chronic::Extensions.safe_parse time, now: now
return parsed if parsed
super
end
def zone
super.tap do |cur|
Chronic.time_class = cur
end
end
def zone= timezone
super.tap do
Chronic.time_class = zone
end
end
end
::Time.singleton_class.prepend Time
def self.safe_parse value, options={}
without_recursion { Chronic.parse value, options }
end
# There are cases where Chronic actually uses the Ruby date/time libraries.
# This leads to infinate recursion as our monkey-patch will intercept the
# built-in libraries to hand off to Chronic which in turn hands back to the
# built-in libraries.
#
# To avoid this we have this function which acts as a guard to prevent the
# recursion. If we have already proxied off to Chronic we won't proxy again.
def self.without_recursion &blk
unless in_recursion
self.in_recursion = true
ret = blk.call
self.in_recursion = false
end
ret
end
mattr_accessor :in_recursion
end