# Timespan Use Timespans in Ruby :) Will calculate time diff between two dates, then allow you to get the time difference in some time unit as a number. ```ruby t = Timespan.new(:start => Date.today, :duration => 3.days.ago) t.to_days # => 3 t.to_weeks # => 0 t.to_secs # => 259200 t.to_hours = 10800 t = Timespan.new("2 days") # from today t = Timespan.new(2.days) # from today t = Timespan.new(200) # 200 secs from today t = Timespan.new(duration: 2.days) # specific use of :duration option t = Timespan.new("3 hrs").from(2.days.from_now) t = Timespan.new(:from => 2.days.ago) t = Timespan.new(:end_date => 4.days.from_now) t = Timespan.new(:from => Date.today, :to => "6 weeks from now") t = Timespan.new(:from => Date.today, :duration => "7 weeks 3 days") t = Timespan.new(:from => 2.days.ago, :duration => "5 months and 2 weeks") ``` See specs for more examples of usage ## Comparison ```ruby timespan.between?(2.days.ago, 1.minute.from_now) timespan.between?(1.days, 3.days) timespan < 3.days ``` ## Math ```ruby 3_days_more = timespan + 3.days day_less = timespan -1 3.day ``` ## Spanner Internally Timespan uses Spanner to parse duration strings. `Spanner.parse('23 hours 12 minutes') ## Duration (ruby-duration) ```ruby Duration.new(100) => # Duration.new(:hours => 5, :minutes => 70) => # Duration.new(:weeks => 3, :days => 1).format("%w %~w and %d %~d") => "3 weeks and 1 day" Duration.new(:weeks => 1, :days => 20).format("%w %~w and %d %~d") => "3 weeks and 6 days" ``` Duration locale file ```yaml da: ruby_duration: second: sekond seconds: sekonder minute: minut minutes: minutter hour: time hours: timer day: dag days: dage week: uge weeks: uges month: måned months: måneder year: år years: år ``` Duration datatype for Mongoid ```ruby require 'duration/mongoid' class MyModel include Mongoid::Document field :duration, type => Duration end ``` ## Timespan i18n Timespan locale file ```yaml da: timespan: from: fra to: til lasting: der varer ialt ``` ## Timespan for Mongoid Custom Timespan datatype ```ruby require 'timespan/mongoid' class Account include Mongoid::Document field :period, :type => TimeSpan end ``` Usage example: ```ruby account = Account.create :period => {:duration => '2 days', :from => Date.today } account.period.start_date account.period.end_date account.period.days account.period.duration # => Duration ## Searching periods ```ruby Account.where(:'period.from'.lt => 6.days.ago.to_i) Account.where(:'period.from'.gt => 3.days.ago.to_i) # in range Account.where(:'period.from'.gt => 3.days.ago.to_i, :'period.to'.lt => Time.now.utc.to_i) ``` Make it easier by introducing a class helper: ```ruby class Account include Mongoid::Document field :period, :type => TimeSpan def self.between from, to Account.where(:'period.from'.gt => from.to_i, :'period.to'.lte => to.to_i) end end ``` `Account.between(6.days.ago, 1.day.ago)` Alternatively auto-generate a `#between` helper for the field: ```ruby class Account include Mongoid::Document field :period, :type => TimeSpan, :between => true ``` `Account.period_between(6.days.ago, 1.day.ago)` See the `mongoid_search_spec.rb` for examples: ## Chronic duration Is used to parse duration strings if Spanner can't be handle it `ChronicDuration.parse('4 minutes and 30 seconds') ### Endure Use the 'endure' gem based on the old "days_and_times". See: [days_and_times](https://github.com/kristianmandrup/days_and_times) Currently it also uses Duration, which conflicts with the 'ruby-duration' gem. ``` 1.day #=> A duration of 1 day 7.days #=> A duration of 7 days 1.week #=> A duration of 1 week 1.week - 2.days #=> A duration of 5 days 1.week.from(Now()) #=> The time of 1 week from this moment 1.week.from(Today()) #=> The time of 1 week from the beginning of today 3.minutes.ago.until(7.minutes.from(Now())) #=> duration 3 minutes ago to 7 minutes from now 3.minutes.ago.until(7.minutes.from(Now())) - 2.minutes #=> duration 3 minutes ago to 5 minutes from now 4.weeks.from(2.days.from(Now())).until(8.weeks.from(Yesterday())) #=> A duration, starting in 4 weeks and 2 days, and ending 8 weeks from yesterday 1.week - 1.second #=> A duration of 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds 4.weeks / 2 #=> A duration of 2 weeks 4.weeks / 2.weeks #=> The integer 2 8.weeks.each {|week| ...} #=> Runs code for each week contained in the duration (of 8 weeks) 8.weeks.starting(Now()).each {|week| ...} #=> Runs code for each week in the duration, but each week is also anchored to a starting time, in sequence through the duration. 1.week.each {|week| ...} #=> Automatically chooses week as its iterator 7.days.each {|day| ...} #=> Automatically chooses day as its iterator 1.week.each_day {|day| ...} #=> Forcing the week to iterate through days 1.week.each(10.hours) {|ten_hour_segment| ...} #=> Using a custom iterator of 10 hours. There would be 17 of them, but notice that the last iteration will only be 8 hours. `` ## Configuration and overrides Timespan by default uses `Time.now.utc` to set the current time, fx used when either `end_date` or `start_date` otherwise would be nil. This is used in order to work with Mongoid (see [issue #400](https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid/issues/400)) You can customize `now` to return fx `Time.now`, `Date.today` or whatever suits you. ```ruby class Timespan def now Time.now # or Date.today end end ``` By default the `TimeSpan` is stored using `:from` and `:to` for the start and end times. This can be customized as follows: ```ruby TimeSpan.start_field = :start TimeSpan.end_field = :end ``` ## Contributing to Timespan * Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet. * Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it. * Fork the project. * Start a feature/bugfix branch. * Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution. * Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally. * Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it. ## Copyright Copyright (c) 2012 Kristian Mandrup. See LICENSE.txt for further details.