class Date

Purpose: Extend the date parsing capabilities of Ruby to work with dates with international month names.

Usage:

Date.parse_international(date_string) DateTime.parse_international(date_string) date_string.to_international_date

Notes: 1) This routine works by substituting your local month names (as defined by Date::MONTHNAMES) for the

international names when they occur in the date_string.

2) As distributed, this code works for French, German, Italian, and Spanish. You must add the month

names for any additional languages you wish to handle.

Constants

MONTH_TRANSLATIONS

Public Class Methods

parse_international(string) click to toggle source

# File lib/holiday_scraper/parser.rb, line 86
def self.parse_international(string)
  parse(month_to_english(string))
end

Private Class Methods

make_hash(names) click to toggle source

# File lib/holiday_scraper/parser.rb, line 92
def self.make_hash(names)
  names.inject({}) {|result, name| result[name] = MONTHNAMES[result.count+1] ; result }
end

month_to_english(string) click to toggle source

# File lib/holiday_scraper/parser.rb, line 102
def self.month_to_english(string)
  month_from = string[/[^\s\d,.]+/i]      # Search for a month name
  if month_from
    month_to = MONTH_TRANSLATIONS[month_from.downcase]      # Look up the translation
    return string.sub(month_from, month_to.to_s) if month_to
  end
  return string
end