Greetings all,
I have added 2 required formats to this (helpful) validation plugin, but unfortunately this complicates (svn) deployment.
Viney, if you're out there, what is the best means to add date formats without compromising the local plugin source (ie through extension).
For others, perhaps this is a more generic problem : how to extend the following with additional regexs?
module ActiveRecord module Validations module DateTime module Parser class DateParseError < StandardError #:nodoc: end class TimeParseError < StandardError #:nodoc: end class DateTimeParseError < StandardError #:nodoc: end
class << self def parse_date(value) raise if value.blank? return value if value.is_a?(Date) return value.to_date if value.is_a?(Time) raise unless value.is_a?(String)
year, month, day = case value.strip # 22/1/06, 22\1\06 or 22.1.06 when /^(\d{1,2})[\\\/\.-](\d{1,2})[\\\/\.-](\d{2}|\d{4})$/ ActiveRecord::Validations::DateTime.us_date_format ? [$3, $1, $2] : [$3, $2, $1] # 22 Feb 06 or 1 jun 2001 when /^(\d{1,2}) (\w{3,9}) (\d{2}|\d{4})$/ [$3, $2, $1] # July 1 2005 when /^(\w{3,9}) (\d{1,2}) (\d{2}|\d{4})$/ [$3, $1, $2] # 2006-01-01 when /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})$/ [$1, $2, $3] # 2006-Sep-01 when /^(\d{4})-(\w{3,9})-(\d{2})$/ [$1, $2, $3] # 2006-9-01 when /^(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{2})$/ [$1, $2, $3] # Not a valid date string else raise end
Date.new(unambiguous_year(year), month_index(month), day.to_i) rescue raise DateParseError end
Thank you for your thoughts. Jodi
