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Truncate to the nearest integer (by default), returning the result as a BigDecimal.

BigDecimal('3.14159').truncate #=> 3
BigDecimal('8.7').truncate #=> 8
BigDecimal('-9.9').truncate #=> -9

If n is specified and positive, the fractional part of the result has no more than that many digits.

If n is specified and negative, at least that many digits to the left of the decimal point will be 0 in the result.

BigDecimal('3.14159').truncate(3) #=> 3.141
BigDecimal('13345.234').truncate(-2) #=> 13300.0

Returns the denominator (always positive).

Rational(7).denominator             #=> 1
Rational(7, 1).denominator          #=> 1
Rational(9, -4).denominator         #=> 4
Rational(-2, -10).denominator       #=> 5

Returns rat truncated (toward zero) to a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).

When the precision is negative, the returned value is an integer with at least ndigits.abs trailing zeros.

Returns a rational when ndigits is positive, otherwise returns an integer.

Rational(3).truncate      #=> 3
Rational(2, 3).truncate   #=> 0
Rational(-3, 2).truncate  #=> -1

  #    decimal      -  1  2  3 . 4  5  6
  #                   ^  ^  ^  ^   ^  ^
  #   precision      -3 -2 -1  0  +1 +2

Rational('-123.456').truncate(+1).to_f  #=> -123.4
Rational('-123.456').truncate(-1)       #=> -120

Returns the value as a string for inspection.

Rational(2).inspect      #=> "(2/1)"
Rational(-8, 6).inspect  #=> "(-4/3)"
Rational('1/2').inspect  #=> "(1/2)"

Synonym for $stdout.

Returns a new Date object formed fom the arguments.

With no arguments, returns the date for January 1, -4712:

Date.ordinal.to_s # => "-4712-01-01"

With argument year, returns the date for January 1 of that year:

Date.ordinal(2001).to_s  # => "2001-01-01"
Date.ordinal(-2001).to_s # => "-2001-01-01"

With positive argument yday == n, returns the date for the nth day of the given year:

Date.ordinal(2001, 14).to_s # => "2001-01-14"

With negative argument yday, counts backward from the end of the year:

Date.ordinal(2001, -14).to_s # => "2001-12-18"

Raises an exception if yday is zero or out of range.

See argument start.

Related: Date.jd, Date.new.

Returns true if self is a Friday, false otherwise.

Returns true if the date is on or after the date of calendar reform, false otherwise:

Date.new(1582, 10, 15).gregorian?       # => true
(Date.new(1582, 10, 15) - 1).gregorian? # => false

Returns the Julian start date for calendar reform; if not an infinity, the returned value is suitable for passing to Date#jd:

d = Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::ITALY)
s = d.start     # => 2299161.0
Date.jd(s).to_s # => "1582-10-15"

d = Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::ENGLAND)
s = d.start     # => 2361222.0
Date.jd(s).to_s # => "1752-09-14"

Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::GREGORIAN).start # => -Infinity
Date.new(2001, 2, 3, Date::JULIAN).start    # => Infinity

See argument start.

Equivalent to Date#new_start with argument Date::ENGLAND.

Equivalent to Date#new_start with argument Date::GREGORIAN.

Calls the block with specified dates; returns self.

Example:

limit = Date.new(2001, 12, 31)
Date.new(2001).step(limit){|date| p date.to_s if date.mday == 31 }

Output:

"2001-01-31"
"2001-03-31"
"2001-05-31"
"2001-07-31"
"2001-08-31"
"2001-10-31"
"2001-12-31"

Returns an Enumerator if no block is given.

Returns a string representation of self:

Date.new(2001, 2, 3).inspect
# => "#<Date: 2001-02-03 ((2451944j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>"

Creates a DateTime object denoting the given ordinal date.

DateTime.ordinal(2001,34) #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 ...>
DateTime.ordinal(2001,34,4,5,6,'+7')
                          #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...>
DateTime.ordinal(2001,-332,-20,-55,-54,'+7')
                          #=> #<DateTime: 2001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00 ...>

Returns the minute in range (0..59):

DateTime.new(2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).min # => 5

Date#minute is an alias for Date#min.

Returns the minute in range (0..59):

DateTime.new(2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).min # => 5

Date#minute is an alias for Date#min.

Returns a string representation of self with subseconds:

t = Time.new(2000, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59, 0.5)
t.inspect # => "2000-12-31 23:59:59.5 +000001"

Related: Time#ctime, Time#to_s:

t.ctime   # => "Sun Dec 31 23:59:59 2000"
t.to_s    # => "2000-12-31 23:59:59 +0000"

Returns the integer minute of the hour for self, in range (0..59):

t = Time.new(2000, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
# => 2000-01-02 03:04:05 +000006
t.min # => 4

Related: Time#year, Time#mon, Time#sec.

Returns true if self is in daylight saving time, false otherwise:

t = Time.local(2000, 1, 1) # => 2000-01-01 00:00:00 -0600
t.zone                     # => "Central Standard Time"
t.dst?                     # => false
t = Time.local(2000, 7, 1) # => 2000-07-01 00:00:00 -0500
t.zone                     # => "Central Daylight Time"
t.dst?                     # => true

Time#isdst is an alias for Time#dst?.

Returns true if self is in daylight saving time, false otherwise:

t = Time.local(2000, 1, 1) # => 2000-01-01 00:00:00 -0600
t.zone                     # => "Central Standard Time"
t.dst?                     # => false
t = Time.local(2000, 7, 1) # => 2000-07-01 00:00:00 -0500
t.zone                     # => "Central Daylight Time"
t.dst?                     # => true

Time#isdst is an alias for Time#dst?.

Returns true if self represents a Friday, false otherwise:

t = Time.utc(2000, 1, 7) # => 2000-01-07 00:00:00 UTC
t.friday?                # => true

Related: Time#saturday?, Time#sunday?, Time#monday?.

Returns console size.

You must require ‘io/console’ to use this method.

Tries to set console size. The effect depends on the platform and the running environment.

You must require ‘io/console’ to use this method.

Returns status information for ios as an object of type File::Stat.

f = File.new("testfile")
s = f.stat
"%o" % s.mode   #=> "100644"
s.blksize       #=> 4096
s.atime         #=> Wed Apr 09 08:53:54 CDT 2003

Returns an array of all lines read from the stream.

When called from class IO (but not subclasses of IO), this method has potential security vulnerabilities if called with untrusted input; see Command Injection.

The first argument must be a string; its meaning depends on whether it starts with the pipe character ('|'):

With only argument command given, executes the command in a shell, parses its $stdout into lines, as determined by the default line separator, and returns those lines in an array:

IO.readlines('| cat t.txt')
# => ["First line\n", "Second line\n", "\n", "Third line\n", "Fourth line\n"]

With only argument path given, parses lines from the file at the given path, as determined by the default line separator, and returns those lines in an array:

IO.readlines('t.txt')
# => ["First line\n", "Second line\n", "\n", "Third line\n", "Fourth line\n"]

For both forms, command and path, the remaining arguments are the same.

With argument sep given, parses lines as determined by that line separator (see Line Separator):

# Ordinary separator.
IO.readlines('t.txt', 'li')
# =>["First li", "ne\nSecond li", "ne\n\nThird li", "ne\nFourth li", "ne\n"]
# Get-paragraphs separator.
IO.readlines('t.txt', '')
# => ["First line\nSecond line\n\n", "Third line\nFourth line\n"]
# Get-all separator.
IO.readlines('t.txt', nil)
# => ["First line\nSecond line\n\nThird line\nFourth line\n"]

With argument limit given, parses lines as determined by the default line separator and the given line-length limit (see Line Limit):

IO.readlines('t.txt', 7)
# => ["First l", "ine\n", "Second ", "line\n", "\n", "Third l", "ine\n", "Fourth ", "line\n"]

With arguments sep and limit given, parses lines as determined by the given line separator and the given line-length limit (see Line Separator and Line Limit):

Optional keyword arguments opts specify:

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