NAME
  coerce

DESCRIPTION
  a ruby library full of common cast/coercion operations

INSTALL
  gem install coerce

USAGE

  :~/git/coerce $ irb -r lib/coerce.rb 

  ruby-1.8.7-p330 :001 > Coerce.integer('42')
   => 42

  ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > Coerce.number('42.0')
   => 42.0 

  ruby-1.8.7-p330 :003 > Coerce.time('yesterday')
   => Wed Aug 24 12:00:00 -0600 2011 

  ruby-1.8.7-p330 :004 > Coerce.list_of_times('yesterday, today')
   => [Wed Aug 24 12:00:00 -0600 2011, Thu Aug 25 19:30:00 -0600 2011] 

  ruby-1.8.7-p330 :005 > Coerce.list_of_floats("42, 4.2\n\n 420")
   => [42.0, 4.2, 420.0]