README in third_base-1.0.0 vs README in third_base-1.0.1

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@@ -16,24 +16,24 @@ applications. If we decide not to care about the Date of Calendar Reform and the fact that the Astronomical Julian Date differs from the Julian Date, much of the complexity of Ruby's standard Date/DateTime class can be removed, and there can be significant improvements in speed. -== Installation +== Resources - sudo gem install third_base +* {RDoc}[http://third-base.rubyforge.org] +* {Source code}[http://github.com/jeremyevans/third_base] +* {Bug tracking}[http://rubyforge.org/projects/third-base/] -== Source +To check out the source code: + + git clone git://github.com/jeremyevans/third_base.git -Source is available via github: +== Installation - http://github.com/jeremyevans/third_base + sudo gem install third_base -You can check it out with git: - - git clone git://github.com/jeremyevans/third_base.git - == Usage and Compatibility There are three ways that ThirdBase can be used: === Alongside the standard Date/DateTime class @@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ DateTime.strptime 10.860000 0.380000 11.240000 ( 11.243913) ThirdBase::DateTime.strptime 3.410000 0.160000 3.570000 ( 3.574491) === Real World Example -ThirdBase was written to solve a real world problem, slow retreval of records +ThirdBase was written to solve a real world problem, slow retrieval of records from a database because they contained many date fields. The table in question (employees), has 23 fields, 5 of which are date fields. Here are the results of selecting all records for the database via Sequel, both with and without third_base: