This gem makes working with dates more pretty. It works well with Ruby application and most frameworks like Ruby on Rails.
Very simple. Just add this code to Gemfile:
gem 'date_range_formatter'
Imagine the situation when you need to show dates of some stuff at your website. For example:
1 - 9 May 2014
2 January 2015
15 July 2016 - 13 February 2017
After that you should call the module DateRangeFormatter with arguments wchich describes the range of dates and format to display. For example, we have date_beginning, date_ending and format by default:
DateRangeFormatter.format('2013-01-14', '2013-02-15')
#=> '14 January - 15 February 2013'Also you can use format_range method and enumerable object:
DateRangeFormatter.format_range(['2013-02-20', '2013-01-14', '2013-01-15'])
#=> '14 January - 20 February 2013'If you want to show dates by another format, you can call it:
date_beginning = Date.new(2013, 01, 14)
date_ending = Date.new(2014, 02, 15)
date_range_str = DateRangeFormatter.format(date_beginning, date_ending, 'short')If you want to show hours, you can call it:
DateRangeFormatter.format('10:00 2013-01-14', '20:00 2013-01-14', :with_time)
#=> '14 January 2013, 10am - 08pm'See predefined formats. Also you can override this formats or add your own.
That's all. Enjoy your profit!
This idea was appeared by looking at the article. Thanks to @mbillard.