activerecord-time

A handler for storing TimeOfDay objects in ActiveRecord objects as SQL time values.

Also adds load/dump of TimeOfDay objects to and from YAML streams, so you can use them in fixtures.

Also adds JSON encode/decode.

The gem supports MRI and JRuby at Ruby 2.2 language level and later. Other Ruby implementations may work.

ActiveRecord 3.2 and later supported.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activerecord-time'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install activerecord-time

Create your tables with fields with type :time and you will be able to access them as TimeOfDay objects.

create_table :schedules do |t|
  ...
  t.time :start_at
  ...
end

or

create_table :schedules do |table|
  ...
  t.column :start_at, :time
  ...
end

or

add_column :schedule, :start_time, :time

The value of the column will be a TimeOfDay object:

schedule = Schedule.new
schedule.start_time = TimeOfDay.parse('08:34')

or

schedule = Schedule.new
schedule.start_time = '08:34'

Kernel is extended with a TimeOfDay constructor that takes either a parseable String or one or more integers.

party_starts_at = TimeOfDay('17:59')
dancing_starts_at = TimeOfDay(20, 02)

Ruby Date objects are extended with the at method that takes a TimeOfDay argument to produce a Ruby Time object. As a shortcut, a String that is parseable by TimeOfDay can be given.

halloween = Date.parse('2015-10-31')
trick_or_treat = halloween.at(TimeOfDay.parse('18:00'))
halloween_dinner = halloween.at('20:00')

Ruby Time objects are extended with the time_of_day method that returns a TimeOfDay object corresponding to the time of day of the Time object.

Time.parse('2015-10-31 20:00').time_of_day # returns TimeOfDay(20, 0)

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Run tests using

rake

./matrix_test.rb

This will run the tests for the same environments as travis-ci.