Returns the value as a BigDecimal
.
The required precision
parameter is used to determine the number of significant digits for the result.
require 'bigdecimal' require 'bigdecimal/util' Rational(22, 7).to_d(3) # => 0.314e1
See also BigDecimal::new
.
Returns the truncated value as an integer.
Equivalent to Rational#truncate
.
Rational(2, 3).to_i #=> 0 Rational(3).to_i #=> 3 Rational(300.6).to_i #=> 300 Rational(98, 71).to_i #=> 1 Rational(-31, 2).to_i #=> -15
Returns the value as a Float
.
Rational(2).to_f #=> 2.0 Rational(9, 4).to_f #=> 2.25 Rational(-3, 4).to_f #=> -0.75 Rational(20, 3).to_f #=> 6.666666666666667
Returns the value as a string.
Rational(2).to_s #=> "2/1" Rational(-8, 6).to_s #=> "-4/3" Rational('1/2').to_s #=> "1/2"
Returns a string in an ISO 8601 format. (This method doesn’t use the expanded representations.)
Date.new(2001,2,3).to_s #=> "2001-02-03"
Returns a string in an ISO 8601 format. (This method doesn’t use the expanded representations.)
DateTime.new(2001,2,3,4,5,6,'-7').to_s #=> "2001-02-03T04:05:06-07:00"
Returns the value of time as an integer number of seconds since the Epoch.
t = Time.now "%10.5f" % t.to_f #=> "1270968656.89607" t.to_i #=> 1270968656
Returns the value of time as a floating point number of seconds since the Epoch.
t = Time.now "%10.5f" % t.to_f #=> "1270968744.77658" t.to_i #=> 1270968744
Note that IEEE 754 double is not accurate enough to represent the exact number of nanoseconds since the Epoch.
Returns the value of time as a rational number of seconds since the Epoch.
t = Time.now t.to_r #=> (1270968792716287611/1000000000)
This methods is intended to be used to get an accurate value representing the nanoseconds since the Epoch. You can use this method to convert time to another Epoch.
Returns a string representing time. Equivalent to calling strftime
with the appropriate format string.
t = Time.now t.to_s #=> "2012-11-10 18:16:12 +0100" t.strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" #=> "2012-11-10 18:16:12 +0100" t.utc.to_s #=> "2012-11-10 17:16:12 UTC" t.strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC" #=> "2012-11-10 17:16:12 UTC"
Returns a ten-element array of values for time:
[sec, min, hour, day, month, year, wday, yday, isdst, zone]
See the individual methods for an explanation of the valid ranges of each value. The ten elements can be passed directly to Time::utc
or Time::local
to create a new Time
object.
t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-19 08:36:01 -0600 now = t.to_a #=> [1, 36, 8, 19, 11, 2007, 1, 323, false, "CST"]
Converts the contents of the database to an array of [key, value] arrays, and returns it.
Returns the values for this struct as an Array
.
Customer = Struct.new(:name, :address, :zip) joe = Customer.new("Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345) joe.to_a[1] #=> "123 Maple, Anytown NC"
Returns a Hash
containing the names and values for the struct’s members.
If a block is given, the results of the block on each pair of the receiver will be used as pairs.
Customer = Struct.new(:name, :address, :zip) joe = Customer.new("Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345) joe.to_h[:address] #=> "123 Maple, Anytown NC" joe.to_h{|name, value| [name.upcase, value.to_s.upcase]}[:ADDRESS] #=> "123 MAPLE, ANYTOWN NC"
Returns a description of this struct as a string.
Returns an integer representing the numeric file descriptor for ios.
$stdin.fileno #=> 0 $stdout.fileno #=> 1
Returns an array of all key-value pairs contained in the database.
Converts the OpenStruct
to a hash with keys representing each attribute (as symbols) and their corresponding values.
If a block is given, the results of the block on each pair of the receiver will be used as pairs.
require "ostruct" data = OpenStruct.new("country" => "Australia", :capital => "Canberra") data.to_h # => {:country => "Australia", :capital => "Canberra" } data.to_h {|name, value| [name.to_s, value.upcase] } # => {"country" => "AUSTRALIA", "capital" => "CANBERRA" }
Returns an array containing the items in the range.
(1..7).to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] (1..).to_a #=> RangeError: cannot convert endless range to an array
Convert this range object to a printable form (using to_s
to convert the begin and end objects).
Returns a string containing the regular expression and its options (using the (?opts:source)
notation. This string can be fed back in to Regexp::new
to a regular expression with the same semantics as the original. (However, Regexp#==
may not return true when comparing the two, as the source of the regular expression itself may differ, as the example shows). Regexp#inspect
produces a generally more readable version of rxp.
r1 = /ab+c/ix #=> /ab+c/ix s1 = r1.to_s #=> "(?ix-m:ab+c)" r2 = Regexp.new(s1) #=> /(?ix-m:ab+c)/ r1 == r2 #=> false r1.source #=> "ab+c" r2.source #=> "(?ix-m:ab+c)"
Converts the set to an array. The order of elements is uncertain.
Set[1, 2].to_a #=> [1, 2] Set[1, 'c', :s].to_a #=> [1, "c", :s]