/I18nParser

A plugin for Rails that adds the ability to parse strings into dates using localization rules

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

I18nParser
==========

Ruby's date parsing methods will return "invalid date" for some international date formats. (It especially doesn't like '%d/%m/%Y'.)

I18n can turn a date into a localized string, but doesn't provide anything for the
round-trip - taking a localized string as input and parsing that into a date. 

This provides a method (parse_i18n) that uses the I18n date format to turn a string into a date.


Example
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---
# config/locale/en.yml
  en:
    date:
      formats:
        default: "%Y-%m-%d"
# config/locale/fr.yml
  fr:
    date:
      formats:
        default: "%d/%m/%Y"
---

> I18n.locale = :en
> Date.parse_i18n '2010-05-31'
# => Mon, 31 May 2010

> I18n.locale = :fr
> Date.parse_i18n '25/07/2010'
# => Sun, 25 Jul 2010


TODO
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* Add time conversion
* Add conversions for string->float for languages that invert the comma and dot


Copyright (c) 2010 Joshua Wehner, released under the MIT license