Returns the Julian day number denoting the day of calendar reform.
Date.new(2001,2,3).start #=> 2299161.0 Date.new(2001,2,3,Date::GREGORIAN).start #=> -Infinity
Returns a date object denoting the following day.
Parses the given representation of date and time, and creates a DateTime object. This method does not function as a validator.
If the optional second argument is true and the detected year is in the range “00” to “99”, makes it full.
DateTime.parse('2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.parse('20010203T040506+0700') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...> DateTime.parse('3rd Feb 2001 04:05:06 PM') #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T16:05:06+00:00 ...>
Raise an ArgumentError when the string length is longer than limit. You can stop this check by passing ‘limit: nil`, but note that it may take a long time to parse.
Takes a string representation of a Time and attempts to parse it using a heuristic.
require 'time' Time.parse("2010-10-31") #=> 2010-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
Any missing pieces of the date are inferred based on the current date.
require 'time' # assuming the current date is "2011-10-31" Time.parse("12:00") #=> 2011-10-31 12:00:00 -0500
We can change the date used to infer our missing elements by passing a second object that responds to mon, day and year, such as Date, Time or DateTime. We can also use our own object.
require 'time' class MyDate attr_reader :mon, :day, :year def initialize(mon, day, year) @mon, @day, @year = mon, day, year end end d = Date.parse("2010-10-28") t = Time.parse("2010-10-29") dt = DateTime.parse("2010-10-30") md = MyDate.new(10,31,2010) Time.parse("12:00", d) #=> 2010-10-28 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", t) #=> 2010-10-29 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", dt) #=> 2010-10-30 12:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("12:00", md) #=> 2010-10-31 12:00:00 -0500
If a block is given, the year described in date is converted by the block. This is specifically designed for handling two digit years. For example, if you wanted to treat all two digit years prior to 70 as the year 2000+ you could write this:
require 'time' Time.parse("01-10-31") {|year| year + (year < 70 ? 2000 : 1900)} #=> 2001-10-31 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("70-10-31") {|year| year + (year < 70 ? 2000 : 1900)} #=> 1970-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
If the upper components of the given time are broken or missing, they are supplied with those of now. For the lower components, the minimum values (1 or 0) are assumed if broken or missing. For example:
require 'time' # Suppose it is "Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 2001" now and # your time zone is EST which is GMT-5. now = Time.parse("Thu Nov 29 14:33:20 2001") Time.parse("16:30", now) #=> 2001-11-29 16:30:00 -0500 Time.parse("7/23", now) #=> 2001-07-23 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("Aug 31", now) #=> 2001-08-31 00:00:00 -0500 Time.parse("Aug 2000", now) #=> 2000-08-01 00:00:00 -0500
Since there are numerous conflicts among locally defined time zone abbreviations all over the world, this method is not intended to understand all of them. For example, the abbreviation “CST” is used variously as:
-06:00 in America/Chicago, -05:00 in America/Havana, +08:00 in Asia/Harbin, +09:30 in Australia/Darwin, +10:30 in Australia/Adelaide, etc.
Based on this fact, this method only understands the time zone abbreviations described in RFC 822 and the system time zone, in the order named. (i.e. a definition in RFC 822 overrides the system time zone definition.) The system time zone is taken from Time.local(year, 1, 1).zone and Time.local(year, 7, 1).zone. If the extracted time zone abbreviation does not match any of them, it is ignored and the given time is regarded as a local time.
ArgumentError is raised if Date._parse cannot extract information from date or if the Time class cannot represent specified date.
This method can be used as a fail-safe for other parsing methods as:
Time.rfc2822(date) rescue Time.parse(date) Time.httpdate(date) rescue Time.parse(date) Time.xmlschema(date) rescue Time.parse(date)
A failure of Time.parse should be checked, though.
You must require ‘time’ to use this method.
Returns the day of the month (1..n) for time.
t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-19 08:27:03 -0600 t.day #=> 19 t.mday #=> 19
Returns the day of the month (1..n) for time.
t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-19 08:27:03 -0600 t.day #=> 19 t.mday #=> 19
Returns the year for time (including the century).
t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-19 08:27:51 -0600 t.year #=> 2007
Returns an integer representing the day of the week, 0..6, with Sunday == 0.
t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-20 02:35:35 -0600 t.wday #=> 2 t.sunday? #=> false t.monday? #=> false t.tuesday? #=> true t.wednesday? #=> false t.thursday? #=> false t.friday? #=> false t.saturday? #=> false
Returns an integer representing the day of the year, 1..366.
t = Time.now #=> 2007-11-19 08:32:31 -0600 t.yday #=> 323
Returns the name of the time zone used for time. As of Ruby 1.8, returns “UTC” rather than “GMT” for UTC times.
t = Time.gm(2000, "jan", 1, 20, 15, 1) t.zone #=> "UTC" t = Time.local(2000, "jan", 1, 20, 15, 1) t.zone #=> "CST"
Returns true if time represents Sunday.
t = Time.local(1990, 4, 1) #=> 1990-04-01 00:00:00 -0600 t.sunday? #=> true
Returns true if time represents Monday.
t = Time.local(2003, 8, 4) #=> 2003-08-04 00:00:00 -0500 t.monday? #=> true
Returns true if time represents Tuesday.
t = Time.local(1991, 2, 19) #=> 1991-02-19 00:00:00 -0600 t.tuesday? #=> true
Returns true if time represents Thursday.
t = Time.local(1995, 12, 21) #=> 1995-12-21 00:00:00 -0600 t.thursday? #=> true
Returns true if time represents Friday.
t = Time.local(1987, 12, 18) #=> 1987-12-18 00:00:00 -0600 t.friday? #=> true
Returns true if time represents Saturday.
t = Time.local(2006, 6, 10) #=> 2006-06-10 00:00:00 -0500 t.saturday? #=> true
Deletes all data from the database.
Yields self within raw mode, and returns the result of the block.
STDIN.raw(&:gets)
will read and return a line without echo back and line editing.
The parameter min specifies the minimum number of bytes that should be received when a read operation is performed. (default: 1)
The parameter time specifies the timeout in seconds with a precision of 1/10 of a second. (default: 0)
If the parameter intr is true, enables break, interrupt, quit, and suspend special characters.
Refer to the manual page of termios for further details.
You must require ‘io/console’ to use this method.
Enables raw mode, and returns io.
If the terminal mode needs to be back, use io.raw { ... }.
See IO#raw for details on the parameters.
You must require ‘io/console’ to use this method.
Reads the entire file specified by name as individual lines, and returns those lines in an array. Lines are separated by sep.
a = IO.readlines("testfile") a[0] #=> "This is line one\n" b = IO.readlines("testfile", chomp: true) b[0] #=> "This is line one"
If the last argument is a hash, it’s the keyword argument to open.
The options hash accepts the following keys:
When the optional chomp keyword argument has a true value, \n, \r, and \r\n will be removed from the end of each line.
See also IO.read for details about open_args.
Returns the current line number in ios. The stream must be opened for reading. lineno counts the number of times gets is called rather than the number of newlines encountered. The two values will differ if gets is called with a separator other than newline.
Methods that use $/ like each, lines and readline will also increment lineno.
See also the $. variable.
f = File.new("testfile") f.lineno #=> 0 f.gets #=> "This is line one\n" f.lineno #=> 1 f.gets #=> "This is line two\n" f.lineno #=> 2
Manually sets the current line number to the given value. $. is updated only on the next read.
f = File.new("testfile") f.gets #=> "This is line one\n" $. #=> 1 f.lineno = 1000 f.lineno #=> 1000 $. #=> 1 # lineno of last read f.gets #=> "This is line two\n" $. #=> 1001 # lineno of last read